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Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer “on notice” for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which “makes the world actively a worse place to live” – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old. Torvalds’ brusque attitude was perhaps most well demonstrated in …

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won’t land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window. Only …