The merge window for 6.4 has been started and here is the first alpha for testing.
New:
- An Early Look At Linux 6.4 Features: AMD CDX, AMD GAM, Intel LAM, Apple M2 & More -- phoronix.com
- EXT4 Sees Some Performance Optimizations, Folio Conversion With Linux 6.4 -- phoronix.com
- Media updates (including dropping overlay support for BTTV cards)
- DRM updates (including Radeon updates)
- Virtio GPU driver modesetting support (DRM_VIRTIO_GPU_KMS)
- ttm_pool.patch because of the build issue
- X5000: dpaa-v9.patch for Trevor
- Linux Git log
- Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.4
I created a patch for adding overlay support again. Additionally, I created the bttv kernel modules with this patch for the alpha1 of kernel 6.4.
Download: bttv_modules_with_overlay_support_6.4-alpha1.tar.gz
Installation instructions for example for the X5000:
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# rm -rf /lib/modules/6.4.0-a1_A-EON_X5000-g0cfd8703e7da-dirty/kernel/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx
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# cp -R bttv_modules_with_overlay_support_6.4-alpha1/X5000/bt8xx /lib/modules/6.4.0-a1_A-EON_X5000-g0cfd8703e7da-dirty/kernel/drivers/media/pci/
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reboot
Please test the alpha1.
Thanks,
Christian