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ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel


Due to the ARM64 maintainer for the Linux kernel going on holiday, the ARM64 port updates have been submitted ahead of the opening of the Linux 6.11 merge window that will likely be on Monday or otherwise the following week depending upon if a 6.10-rc8 is warranted.

Due to the ARM64 maintainer for the Linux kernel going on holiday, the ARM64 port updates have been submitted ahead of the opening of the Linux 6.11 merge window that will likely be on Monday or otherwise the following week depending upon if a 6.10-rc8 is warranted. When it comes to the ARM64 (AArch64) changes for this next kernel version, there's been a lot of work on virtual CPU hotplug handling so that it should now be properly working on ARM64 ACPI-enabled systems. There are also ARM64 ACPI updates, GICv3 optimizations, perf updates for more hardware, and other smaller changes.

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