Portal:Kernel

Welcome to the Kernel Portal edit

The Linux Kernel is the central component of a Linux operating system like openSUSE. A Kernel manages hardware resources like CPU, memory and hard disks and provides abstractions that provide applications with a consistent view of these resources. Also, the Kernel provides drivers for devices attached to various system buses like USB, PCI, SATA and IDE. For a complete overview of Operating System Kernels see the Wikipedia article.

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Community

Linux Mainline

On a regular basis a "kernel.org Kernel" (or mainline) is released with a name like "Linux 2.6.32". These Kernels are developed by a community of developers and maintained by Linus Torvalds. For more information about this take a look at http://kernel.org.

openSUSE Kernel

At the beginning of a openSUSE development cycle the Kernel team takes a released "kernel.org Kernel" and adds a number of patches to increase stability and introduce new features. These patches are kept to a minimum and most all will eventually make it into the kernel.org Kernel. This Kernel is maintained in the Kernel git repository.

Contribute

The easiest way to contribute to the openSUSE Kernel is to submit a bugreport.
Or you code with us and submit patches to our git repository.

Communicate

#opensuse-kernel on the freenode IRC network is the channel that the Kernel team uses for live chat.
opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org - The openSUSE Kernel team has its own mailing list.
Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Help - Archives
kernel.opensuse.org - The openSUSE Kernel resources site.

kernel-source commits (news) edit

2017 Sep 20: [cb96cd53e95300cef3985b2cf7b84035b8f9e094 x86/crypto: Fix RBP usage in twofish-avx-x86_64-asm_64.S— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]
2017 Sep 20: [7e5cddf3a68a984e6e2d8a941eefe65420124989 x86/crypto: Fix RBP usage in sha512-avx2-asm.S (bnc#1058115).— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]
2017 Sep 20: [2519ee5779ec40949e6d9720a9420ce9772609fe x86/crypto: Fix RBP usage in sha256-ssse3-asm.S (bnc#1058115).— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]
2017 Sep 20: [30346d6204e3b1f210973f6d119b3b522f9597d0 x86/crypto: Fix RBP usage in sha256-avx2-asm.S (bnc#1058115).— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]
2017 Sep 20: [a7be8441bbeb662d79e0abb6f8a5c7d11b68cdac x86/crypto: Fix RBP usage in sha256-avx-asm.S (bnc#1058115).— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]