Keynote: The Kernel Report
summary
Six major releases land each year with roughly 14,000 commits from ~2,000 developers and about 250 new contributors per release, on a reliable 9–10 week cadence. Rust arrives as an experiment (merged in 6.1) and is judged viable but blocked by compiler/architecture support and backport pain; drivers like Android binder are ready and Nova (NVIDIA) started in February. skex lets user‑space BPF schedulers evolve quickly (skex merged for 6.12). The project becomes its own CVE numbering authority, B4 automates patch work, and regression tracking currently lacks funding.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Kernel release schedule
- 3:34Rust in Linux progress
- 9:56BPF CPU scheduler
- 14:09Kernel as CVE authority
- 16:15Kernel tooling improvements
- 20:45Summary
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