New kernels

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The merge window is over. Linus Torvalds has released the RC1 of kernel 7.1 for testing.

I compiled it for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) yesterday.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the stable long-term kernel 6.12.84, cross compiled in an Oracle Linux 10.1 docker container with GCC 14.1.1.

Download and further information: github.com



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

I tested the stable long-term kernel 6.12.84 in a Kubernetes pod yesterday.

[xeno74]

I updated the HELM chart for Linux PowerPC kernel development and testing today.

Download: github.com

[xeno74]

New for the RC2 of kernel 7.1:

• Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes -- phoronix.com
• Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs -- phoronix.com
• New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2 -- phoronix.com
• 7.1-rc2 announcement
• DRM fixes
• NTFS Resurrection fixes
• MM fixes
• Networking fixes
• ATA fix
• Sound fixes (including HD-audio and USB-audio fixes)
• BTRFS fixes
• NVMe fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 7.1

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Linus Torvalds has released the RC2 of kernel 7.1 for testing.

I have compiled it for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com

Monitoring the cross-compilation of RC2 with PROXMOX:



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

New for the RC3 of kernel 7.1:

• Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes -- phoronix.com
• 7.1-rc3 announcement
• PowerPC fixes 7.1-2
• X1000 (PASEMI): Extended Display Identification Data support removed (We haven't used it yet either. x1000_defconfig: CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set)
• X1000 (PASEMI): PCI fix
• DRM fixes (including Radeon fixes)
• FBdev fixes
• PCI fixes
• USB driver fixes
• IOMMU fixes (including cache-flushing fix for non-x86 platforms)
• Networking fixes (including VirtIO transport fix)
• Sound fixes (including HD-Audio and USB-audio fixes)
• SCSI fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 7.1

[Hypex]

So I've been testing kernels in the background. I had an issue with the series 7.0 RC6 as it was sluggish. But the final 7.0 was fine.

I've been slowly going through the 7.1 alphas and reaching the RC builds which have been working well.

I tested the 6.12.84 on my Xenial but noticed a complaint from the sound driver listed below. I also tried to test the sounds from the Sound Preferences but the hardware doesn't show up. By comparison kernel 7.1.0-a3 under MATE works fine.

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damien@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep snd
[   11.748147] snd_serial_u16550 snd_serial_u16550.0: no UART detected at 0x1
[   11.791924] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[   11.834508] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-ua101
[   11.876291] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-usx2y
[   11.918153] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-caiaq
[   11.959502] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-6fire
[   12.000406] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-hiface
[   12.040958] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-bcd2000
[   12.080932] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd_usb_pod
[   12.120528] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd_usb_podhd
[   12.159991] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd_usb_toneport
[   12.199408] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd_usb_variax
[   24.211350] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Force to snoop mode by module option
[   24.211480] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: Force to snoop mode by module option
[   24.294270] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: bound 0000:01:00.0 (ops 0xc0000000016cd278)
[   24.316300] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: spurious response 0x173f:0x3, last cmd=0x30bf000c
[   24.316319] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: spurious response 0x173f:0x3, last cmd=0x30bf000c
[   25.320201] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x30cf000c
[   26.321188] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x30cf000c
[   26.321470] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: autoconfig for STAC92HD700: line_outs=4 (0xd/0xf/0x10/0x11/0x0) type:line
[   26.321482] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.321490] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    hp_outs=1 (0xa/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.321499] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   26.321504] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    dig-out=0x21/0x0
[   26.321509] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    inputs:
[   26.321515] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Front Mic=0xb
[   26.321521] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Rear Mic=0xe
[   26.321526] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Line=0xc
[   26.321532] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      CD=0x12
[   26.322582] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: rates == 0 (nid=0x7, val=0x0, ovrd=0)
[   26.322592] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: fail to setup default for PCM STAC92HD700 Analog
[   26.322621] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: probe with driver snd_hda_codec_idt failed with error -5
[   26.331292] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: autoconfig for STAC92HD700: line_outs=4 (0xd/0xf/0x10/0x11/0x0) type:line
[   26.331311] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.331321] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    hp_outs=1 (0xa/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.331329] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   26.331335] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:    inputs:
[   26.331341] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Front Mic=0xb
[   26.331347] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Rear Mic=0xe
[   26.331353] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      Line=0xc
[   26.331359] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3:      CD=0x12
[   26.332431] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: formats == 0 (nid=0x2, val=0xd0c05, ovrd=0, streams=0xe07e0)
[   26.332442] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: fail to setup default for PCM STAC92HD700 Analog
[   26.332465] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC1D3: probe with driver snd_hda_codec_idt failed with error -5
[   26.393281] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3: ignore pin 0xe with mismatching assoc# 0x4 vs 0x1
[   26.494081] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3: autoconfig for Generic: line_outs=4 (0xd/0xf/0x10/0x11/0x0) type:line
[   26.494096] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.494106] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:    hp_outs=1 (0xa/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   26.494116] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   26.494123] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:    dig-out=0x21/0x0
[   26.494130] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:    inputs:
[   26.494138] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:      Mic=0xb
[   26.494145] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3:      Mic=0xc
[   26.494801] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3: rates == 0 (nid=0x7, val=0x0, ovrd=1)
[   26.525121] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3: fail to setup default for PCM Generic Analog
[   26.525151] snd_hda_codec_generic hdaudioC1D3: probe with driver snd_hda_codec_generic failed with error -5
[   26.557730] snd_hda_intel 0000:05:14.2: Cannot probe codecs, giving up
damien@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 6.12.84-powerpc64-smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 08:15:38 UTC 2026 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
damien@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_hda_codec_idt      57344  0
snd_hda_codec_generic    94208  1 snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     73728  1
snd_hda_intel          36864  2
snd_intel_dspcfg       12288  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         143360  4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_hda_core           98304  5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_idt

[xeno74]

I tested the 6.12.84 on my Xenial but noticed a complaint from the sound driver listed below.

Thank you for testing. I will test my sound devices too.