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[NEWS] Linux 7.2
« on: August 17, 2026, 12:20:24 am »
So what's new?

* initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver -- so far no regression found yet, amdgpu works as expected
* support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers
* initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver
* Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture
* Fair(er) GPU scheduler
* improves the new NTFS filesystem introduced in Linux kernel 7.1
and many more changes

Not much changes related to ppc64
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Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.2
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2026, 09:45:00 pm »
I suggest not updating to the 7.2 kernels right now - I ran into an issue on 7.2.0 and 7.2.2 where I got random segfaults in ld64.so.2 while compiling things. It looks like there is some kind of issue with syscalls that causes userspace crashes: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg258968.html.

There is a suggested patch on that mailing list post, but I'm not sure if anything has been submitted yet. I haven't personally tried 7.2.3, but I didn't spot anything in the changelog that looked like it might have fixed it.