Six stable kernels

[Posted September 23, 2020 by ris]

Stable kernels 5.8.11, 5.4.67, 4.19.147, 4.14.199, 4.9.237, and 4.4.237 have been released with important fixes. Users should upgrade.

Six stable kernels

Posted Sep 24, 2020 13:37 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (2 responses)

Could there possibly be some LWN coverage of what / how / why the framebuffer software scrolling functionality was broken and removed? (Other than just the sneaky comments by Linus himself or the few comments here or here on LWN, that is.)

Scrollback

Posted Sep 24, 2020 13:55 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

We first mentioned it in the "kernel release status" article last week; it's brief but covers the basics.

soft scrollback

Posted Sep 24, 2020 15:56 UTC (Thu) by set (guest, #4788) [Link]

The discussion appears to be ongoing, with Pavel Machek expressing desire to fix it up. Here is a more recent comment from Linus regarding that:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.2/10405.html