Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window.

Only on Friday were the RISC-V code update submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux

GNU/Hurd has made it as an official platform target within SDL that is the open-source library widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions across operating systems.

GNU/Hurd had already worked with SDL for a "long time" but now is an official platform to be able to enhance its support. The commit adding GNU/Hurd platform coverage to SDL explains:

"Add GNU/Hurd as platform

SDL has been building on GNU/Hurd for a long time,

There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release.

First up, Mutter has merged support for setting Broadcast RGB support. This has been tested on Intel graphics so far and fixes the four year old bug report over having a way for setting the full RGB range output in GNOME on Wayland.

Mutter also merged wl_seat version 10 support. The updated Wayland seat protocol adds an "axis

Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release.

Some of the KDE Plasma 6.5 highlights for this week include:

- System Settings in Plasma 6.5 added the ability so pages can communicate to the parent app if they are not relevant to the given system/hardware in use. Actions can also be exported such as

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned , more patches hit the public Linux kernel mailing list to mark additional Intel drivers as orphaned and removing maintainer entries for Linux developers no longer at Intel.

One of the new patches today drops one of the maintainers of the Intel Ethernet RDMA driver. The Intel Ethernet RDMA driver is still maintained as one

There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as its new maintainer.

A patch was posted a few minutes ago on the Linux kernel mailing list to mark the coretemp driver as orphaned. Longtime Intel Linux engineer Dave Hansen commented on the

We still don't know what's going to happen for Bcachefs in the Linux 6.17 kernel even with the merge window set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release. Linus Torvalds commented over one month ago that they would be parting ways for Linux 6.17 . At the start of the Linux 6.17 merge window a Bcachefs pull request was submitted but nearly two weeks later it's still not been pulled and Linus Torvalds hasn't

A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the RDNA4 Kicker variant.

Besides updating firmware files for various generations of existing AMD Radeon graphics hardware support, appearing today in linux-firmware.git are a few new firmware files for the first time: GC 1