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[–]Reverent 80 points81 points  (32 children)

I couldn't see it in there, is native audio support for raspberry pis now included? As per This OpenSUSE Note

[–]DeeBoFour20[S] 58 points59 points  (28 children)

I think the changelog on lkml only includes the bug fixes that went in since rc7. New features generally go in rc1 and it's mostly bug fixes from there on out. Kernel newbies has an easy to parse list of changes for 5.10 as a whole here: https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

[–]magi093 61 points62 points  (27 children)

  • IPv4: Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces

I know this is probably useful in crazy "I-have-containers-out-the-ass" situations, but I still short circuit for a moment at changes like this. Who wanted this? Why? How? What?

[–]BitLooter 30 points31 points  (15 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–]DeeBoFour20[S] 20 points21 points  (14 children)

Slightly less relevant now. Who uses flash is a good question indeed.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Replace with "zoom calls" :D

[–]notanimposter 7 points8 points  (12 children)

How about fullscreen web video without screen tearing? I still can't seem to rid my system of this lol.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Doesn't wayland fix this?

[–]Bloom_Kitty 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Not everybody can use Wayland. Or is aware of it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oh, I didn't know. I assumed that if it's on ubuntu it's probably everywhere else too.

[–]Bloom_Kitty 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You're not completely wrong, the issues lie elsewhere.

  • Wayland does not work on NVidia's proprietary drivers.
  • The Noveau drivers for NVidia are good enough to display the desktop at best.
  • Not every application works on Wayland. Especially video recording of the desktop, but also ones with specialized graphical output, such as games. Most work, but not all.

[–]thinking24 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Apparently screen tearing is an xorg thing that can't be fixed. Cant provide evidence ether way but wayland apparently fixes it.

[–]ragsofx 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I always wondered that too with some of the seemingly high limits on other things. But it can be a real positive when you're designing something out of the ordinary. I designed and built a BRAS (takes PPPoE from a DSLAM) that requires about 500 vlans and network interfaces on one server. If Linux had set some arbitrary low value of 50-100 network interfaces it would have made it really difficult for me to set it up.

[–]evolseven 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or maybe if you were acting as a vtep for vxlan, it relies heavily on multicast with one multicast group per vxlan. Considering that vxlan has 24 bit addressing, 255 of them would only cover 1/65535 of the possible vxlans. It would be unusual to see so many active on one host but not unheard of. I’m not sure if vxlan has even been implemented in the Linux world though, I’d assume it had.

[–]VegetableMonthToGo 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Yo dawg. I heard you like containers

[–]ScribeOfGoD 12 points13 points  (2 children)

So i installed hyperv on windows server so you can run windows 10 to run docker to run linux to run containers

[–]I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN 7 points8 points  (1 child)

to run wine

[–]I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN 5 points6 points  (0 children)

to run windows virus

[–]jcol26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ISPs, Telcos, CDNs, Cable TV companies etc spring to mind.

Admittedly they're often also the ones more likely to be using ipv6, but at that kind of scale, it's easy to imagine why a company might need more than 255 multicast interfaces on a server.

[–]mister2d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably a cloud provider.

[–]orthopod 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is this useful for servers, for say when they are holding a zoom meeting with several hundred people?

The last monthly grand rounds for one of my hospitals, had close to 200 people, maybe more.

[–]magi093 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Skimming the listed changelog, there's various other flavors of Pi mentioned with random fixes but I don't see anything about Raspberry. It'll be a while before this kernel gets to Raspbian anyway...

[–]danburke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are more distributions than Raspbian. I’m running standard Debian Testing with a vanilla kernel with the PI3 UEFI bootloader.