Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 2, 2022 9:38 PM EDT
The Register; By Simon Sharwood
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Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple's homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers. In his announcement of the release, Torvalds called out work to support for the made-in-China Loongarch RISC architecture as an important step, along with "another batch of the networking sysctl READ_ONCE() annotations to make some of the data race checker code happy."

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