Google and Collabora Add Major Change to Linux Kernel 5.1 for Chrome OS Devices

Collabora and Google engineers have been working on a new, exciting new feature that would benefit users of Chrome OS and Android devices, which recently landed in the latest Linux 5.1 kernel series.

According to Collabora’s latest report on their contributions to the Linux 5.1 kernel, which arrived last week, it is now possible to mount and boot a mapped device by adding a kernel parameter via command-line at boot time, thus bypassing initramfs image. For Linux kernel 5.1, twelve Collabora’s developers also contributed 64 commits and 111 sign-offs, along with lots of bug reports and testing.

“Helen Koike contributed a major change, providing a mechanism to mount a mapped device at boot time through a kernel command line pa… (read more)

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