Keynote: Dirk Hohndel, VP, VMware, in Conversation with Linux Creator Linus Torvalds
Interviewat Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 2017 · on Tuesday, 2017-02-21· at 09:15· Grand Ballroom I/II·
summary
Kernel development runs on a steady 10-week release cadence with code merged when ready rather than pinned to promises, and 4.9 turns out to be the largest release ever while most releases are predictable. About 85–95% of changes are already ready before the merge window, leaving only a small post-window churn. Four architectures — x86 arm powerpc s390 are the reliably maintained architectures — and work includes dropping ancient 386 support, PowerPC radix improvements, and adding a fifth paging level on x86.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Linux release cycles
- 7:10Linux release models
- 15:52Kernel development stability
- 16:57Linux for IoT and security
- 23:17Kernel architecture support
- 27:58Hardware compatibility
- 29:04Torvalds' hobby projects
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