Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
Date:
Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:53:59 +0000
Description:
Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release. Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
support that never went anywhere. But we're more than making up for any stale code removal with all
the new features and code added, so the diffstat still shows many
more lines added than removed.
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