Linux Kernel Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Kernel Podcast S2E4 - 2023/04/24
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Masters summarizes the arrival of the Linux 6.3 kernel release, which includes additional support for the Rust programming language, a new red-bla...
Kernel Podcast S2E3 - 2023/03/09
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Masters summarizes the closure of the Linux 6.3 "merge window" (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed to the kernel) and the ...
Kernel Podcast S2E2 - 2023/02/12
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Masters summarizes the tail end of the Linux 6.2 kernel development cycle as developers prepare for the upcoming 6.3 "merge window" in the week ah...
Kernel Podcast S2E1 - 2023/01/21
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux "Kernel Podcast" returns from a long hiatus for a new "season 2". Our host Jon Masters introduces the new season, and summarizes recent happ...
Kernel Podcast for 2017/07/07
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail
Kernel Podcast for 2017/05/14
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linux 4.12-rc1 (including a full summary of the 4.12 merge window), Linux 4.11 final is released, saving TLB flushes, various ongoing development, and...
Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/27
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development
Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/19
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc7, a kernel security update bonanza, the end of Kconfig maintenance, automatic NUMA balancing, movable memory,...
Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/11
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc6, Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA), Coherent Device Memory (CDM), Paravirtualized Remote TLB Flushing,...
Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/04
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc5, Donald Drumpf drains the maintainer swamp in April, Intel FPGA Device Drivers, FPU state cacheing, /dev/mem ...
Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/28
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc4, early debug with USB3 earlycon, upcoming support for USB-C in 4.12, and ongoing development including vario...
Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/03/21
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc3, this week's exciting installment of "5-level paging weekly", the 2038 doomsday compliance "statx" systemcal...
Kernel Podcast for 20170313
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc2 (including pre-enablement for Intel 5-level paging), VMA based swap readahead, and ongoing development ahead...
Kernel Podcast for 20170306
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc1, rants about folks not correctly leveraging linux-next, the remainder of this cycle's merge window pulls, an...
Kernel Podcast for 20170227
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The merge window for kernel 4.11 is open and patches are flying into Linus's inbox, fixing NUMA node determination at runtime, Virtual Machine Aware...
Kernel Podcast for 20170220
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s edition: Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.10, Alan Tull updates his FPGA manager framework, and Intel’s latest 5-level paging patch...
2009/06/14 Linux Kernel Podcast
15 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
2.6.31 merge window, shipping userspace (sub)packages,large kernel images, and matching disks to boot order
2009/06/10 Linux Kernel Podcast
12 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Linux 2.6.30 updates, lockless ring buffer, poisoned hardware, platform device architectural data, and virtual swap readahead
2009/06/09 Linux Kernel Podcast
11 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Linux 2.6.30, performance overhead, IO scheduler based IO controller, VIA Centaur CPUs, and procfs documentation
2009/06/08 Linux Kernel Podcast
09 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Fair Anticipatory Scheduling, making mapped executable pages the first class citizen, zone_reclaim() behavorial expectations, MCE ring buffer, RTL8169...
2009/06/07 Linux Kernel Podcast
09 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Mild ext4 filesystem corruption, private anonymous mmaps, performance overhead, introducing the initdev patchset, IDE fixes, Performance Counters, Int...
2009/06/04 Linux Kernel Podcast
05 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux Driver Project, Remapping NULL pointers, MCE ring buffer, paravirt operations overhead, Super-H, System 390, Console screen blanking, and ke...
2009/06/03 Linux Kernel Podcast
04 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Xen, zero page pointers, detailed stack information, filesystem notification of errors, printk halt delay, and hardware breakpoints
2009/06/02 Linux Kernel Podcast
04 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Xen, OOM, DebugFS, Dynamic ftrace support for s390, kprobe-based event tracing, and resetting the TSC
2009/06/01 Linux Kernel Podcast
02 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The spirit of the GPL, hacking at mm_struct, retrying core dumps, security, and a generic hashlist implementation
2009/05/31 Linux Kernel Podcast
01 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Xen, page allocator sanitization, poisonous hardware, magic sysrq, System Management Interrupts, and Intel Atom CPU support
2009/05/28 Linux Kernel Podcast
29 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
ARM devicetree support, ftrace, per-BDI flusher threads, and trusted boot technology
2009/05/27 Linux Kernel Podcast
28 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Kernel based checkpoint and restart, per-BDI writeback flusher threads, Microblaze MMU support, ARM devicetree support, and Xen
2009/05/26 Linux Kernel Podcast
27 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Tracepoints, modules, Machine Check Exceptions, and IO scheduling
2009/05/25 US Memorial Day Weekend Linux Kernel Podcast
27 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
dynamic performance counters, kprobe-based event tracing, OOM killer, page sanitization, 16-bit stack corruption on NMI, DO_ONCE, CPU hotplug, and a n...
2009/05/21 Linux Kernel Podcast
22 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Today's issue was delayed due to your author taking a day off ahead of the US Memorial Weekend Holiday. Since I'll be in Ottawa, Canada over the weeke...
2009/05/20 Linux Kernel Podcast
21 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Sysfs, Dynamic percpu, perf. counters, KVM, and Documentation
2009/05/19 Linux Kernel Podcast
20 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Xen, tracepoints, RAID6, and MCE
2009/05/18 Linux Kernel Podcast
19 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
KVM, Xen, 2.6.30-rc6 frustrations, and miscellaneous items
2009/05/17 Linux Kernel Podcast
18 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Expedited RCU, mod_timer() helper functions, CAN, version numbering, and performance regressions
2009/05/15 Linux Kernel Podcast
16 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Generic DMA, KVM, DRBD, and a new kernel RC release
2009/05/14 Linux Kernel Podcast
15 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Cross-platform device drivers, DRBD, KVM, Btrfs, and 2.6.30 deadlocks
2009/05/13 Linux Kernel Podcast
14 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
KVM, Xen, hibernate, forced CPU evacuation, hardware breakpoints, MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE, and asm-generic headers
2009/05/12 Linux Kernel Podcast
13 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
vmscan, irqfd, OOM, and Xen
2009/05/11 Linux Kernel Podcast
12 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
the x86 relocatable kernel, performance counters, devtmpfs, and NUMA memory affinity
2009/05/10 Linux Kernel Podcast
11 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
page frame snapshots tracing, devtmpfs, a minimal linkerscript, and email address formats
2009/05/09 Linux Kernel Podcast
10 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux Kernel Mailing List podcast airs Monday to Friday. A special weekend edition will be available on Monday morning.
2009/05/08 Linux Kernel Podcast
09 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, Block Layer Unification, Security patches, Filtering System Calls, The Linux Wireless mini-summit, kernel code c...
2009/05/07 Linux Kernel Podcast
08 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Generic DMA mapping, Ptrace, Reducing the default HZ value, TuxOnIce, Xen, and x86 fixes
2009/05/06 Linux Kernel Podcast
07 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
IO Controllers, KVM, Ftrace 2, TuxOnIce, and Slow booting.
2009/05/05 Linux Kernel Podcast
06 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES, Sanity checking sysfs clocksource changes, Ftrace, Memmap validity checking, Security, KVM, and IO scheduler bas...
2009/05/04 Linux Kernel Podcast
06 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The sendgroup() system call, VFAT long file names support, Machine Check Exceptions, Kbuild fixes, Real Time scheduler tunables, Ftrace speed ups, a n...
2009/05/03 Linux Kernel Podcast
06 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The cgroup IO-throttling scheduler, blank screens upon resume, DRBD, __GFP_PANIC, specific processor optimizations, file descriptor (ab)uses, and the ...