Keynote: The Kernel Report
summary
Six kernel releases in 13 months average 13,000 changes per release from about 1,700 developers, and 4.15 slips 11 weeks because of Meltdown/Spectre fixes with KPTI merged early while Spectre work stays private, leaving many tier‑2 cloud and BSD users exposed. Embedded devices often carry millions of lines of out‑of‑tree code and many will never get updates; Android LTS helps. Extended BPF grows fast — BPF JIT + verifier + LLVM toolchain and XDP produce hundreds of production tracing and packet‑processing tools.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:08Milton Inspector
- 2:30Develop Development Community
- 2:50Meltdown Mitigations
- 3:24BSD Community
- 4:27Tier 2 Providers
- 5:37Community Development
- 7:45Community Responses
- 9:18Open Hardware
- 12:11Chief Security Officers
- 12:46Embedded Systems
- 13:53Greg Hartman
- 17:06Virtual Machine
- 18:04BPF
- 20:01C
- 20:53Architectures
- 21:34Line of Code
- 21:47Documentation
- 22:30Disruptive Systems
- 22:56Legacy Systems
- 23:58Zephyr
- 24:15Fuchsia
- 24:39We have all benefited
- 25:12The future of Linux
