Linus Torvalds has been back at work for a week and already has a second release candidate ready. What’s your excuse?
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has urged developers to “crawl out from under all the xmas wrapping paper piles and go test” after releasing release candidate two of version 5.11 of the Linux kernel.” You read that right: Torvalds is already up to rc2, having released rc1 on December 27th,2020. On that not-very-busy-for-most-people day Torvalds noted that far and away the biggest piece of new code in version 5.11 was a “huge dump of AMD GPU descriptor header files, which completely dwarfs all the ‘real’ changes here.” “The AMD ‘Van Gogh’ include file additions are in fact about two thirds of the whole patch, even if it comes from basically one single commit that just adds the register definitions.
