New kernels

[Hypex]

Testing the RC7 now on MATE and all looks good.

[xeno74]

Testing the RC7 now on MATE and all looks good.

Thank you!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I am happy to release the final kernel 6.18.0 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com

Thanks a lot to Skateman, Roland and Hypex for testing the alphas and release candidates.



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

New for the alpha1 of kernel 6.19:

• Btrfs In Linux 6.19 Adds Experimental Features, Continues Preparations For FSCRYPT -- phoronix.com
• Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19 -- phoronix.com
• AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added -- phoronix.com
• amd-drm-next-6.19-2025-11-14
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.19

Code: Select all

git clone --depth 1 --branch amd-drm-next-6.19-2025-11-14 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux.git

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The merge window for the kernel 6.19 has been started and here is the first alpha with the first DRM updates for testing.

Download and further information: github.com

The Radeon HD 7xxx graphics cards, including the Rx 300 series, have been moved from the old Radeon driver to the AMDGPU driver.

Our kernel packages don’t have the AMDGPU driver because it doesn’t have big endian support. (byte swapping of firmwares)

I think you use the fbdev driver for the 7xxx cards.

Please test the kernels with your Radeon graphics cards.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

I successfully tested the alpha1 with my Radeon HD5870 and with my Radeon HD6870 today.
Hardware 3D acceleration works well with both cards.

Please test the alpha1 with your Radeon card.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I compiled the alpha2 of kernel 6.19 with networking updates (including DPAA and VirtIO-net updates), NTFS3 updates, XFS updates, HFS/HFSPLUS updates, BTRFS updates and EXT4 updates for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the alpha3 of kernel 6.19 with sound updates for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

[Hypex]

So I've just spent some time catching up with latest kernels.

Tested final 6.18 and installed to Xenial for testing. Found it works fine with Xenial. No problems encountered.

Tested latest 6.19 alphas 1 and 2 on my MATE 2017 and Mint 2025 installs. While keeping in mind latest changes of move to AMD driver for Radeon chipsets. So far, on my R7 250, both initial alphas boot fine, run well, appear stable, are fluent on desktop and present no immediate issues.

[sailorMH]

So I've just spent some time catching up with latest kernels.

Tested final 6.18 and installed to Xenial for testing. Found it works fine with Xenial. No problems encountered.

Tested latest 6.19 alphas 1 and 2 on my MATE 2017 and Mint 2025 installs. While keeping in mind latest changes of move to AMD driver for Radeon chipsets. So far, on my R7 250, both initial alphas boot fine, run well, appear stable, are fluent on desktop and present no immediate issues.

Does it mean that amdgpu kernel driver really work on Big Endian ? If yes, it is very good news!