--- title: Linux Kernel 4.16 | daily.dev description: Collabora contributed 33 patches to the Linux Kernel 4.16 release, made by 8 developers. Key contributions include display support improvements for Nokia N950,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-16-w2td2vtks twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Kernel 4.16 | daily.dev og:description: Collabora contributed 33 patches to the Linux Kernel 4.16 release, made by 8 developers. Key contributions include display support improvements for Nokia N950,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-16-w2td2vtks og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/w2tD2VTkS.png og:image:alt: Linux Kernel 4.16 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux Kernel 4.16 **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Collabora contributed 33 patches to the Linux Kernel 4.16 release, made by 8 developers. Key contributions include display support improvements for Nokia N950, N9, and Motorola Droid 4; USB3 and extcon support for Rockchip RK3399 and Samsung Chromebook Plus; a DRM API bug fix for multi-planar framebuffer ioctls; D3DFMT_L8 format support for the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset; and splitting the cros_ec MFD module. Collabora also added Reviewed-by tags to 34 patches and Signed-off-by tags to 74 patches. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did Collabora contribute to Linux Kernel 4.16? Collabora contributed 33 patches to Linux Kernel 4.16, made by 8 developers. Highlights include display support for Nokia N950, N9, and Motorola Droid 4; USB3 and extcon support for Rockchip RK3399 including Samsung Chromebook Plus; a DRM API fix for multi-planar framebuffer ioctls; D3DFMT_L8 support for the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset; and splitting cros_ec MFD into its own module. _Developers tracking Linux kernel contributions and driver work follow upstream progress on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-16-w2td2vtks) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Linux Kernel 4.16","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-16-w2td2vtks","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-4-16-w2td2vtks"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:53:50.318Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:17:41.218Z","description":"Collabora contributed 33 patches to the Linux Kernel 4.16 release, made by 8 developers. 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