Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates address various hardware issues, including floppy disk driver fixes and NVMe support for Apple M4 devices.
Intelligence analysis by Qwen 2.5 (3B)
Linux 7.4 includes updates for block/storage and IO_uring, addressing issues like floppy disk driver fixes and NVMe support for Apple M4 devices.
Linux 7.4 fixed some old floppy disk problems and added support for new Apple M4 devices that use special storage chips.
Analysis
{"heading":"Floppy Disk Driver Fixes","content":["Denis Efremov of Oracle addressed a stack out-of-bound issue with the floppy driver, fixing a regression from 2017.","Cen Zhang identified and fixed data races within the floppy driver, which were found by unspecified AI tools.","The SWIM driver for old Apple Macintosh floppy disk controllers was improved by Finn Thain of the Linux m68k community."]}
Key points
- Fixed issues with the floppy disk driver
- Added support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices
- Improved performance for XFS file system
The updates should make older computers work better and newer computers use less power.
There might be some issues with the new NVMe storage support for Apple M4 devices, but the team is working on it.