--- title: Linux Kernel 5.1 | daily.dev description: Linux Kernel 5.1 was released with over 13,000 commits from developers worldwide. Collabora contributed 64 commits and 111 sign-offs from twelve developers. A... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-5-1-8yltgyu4s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Kernel 5.1 | daily.dev og:description: Linux Kernel 5.1 was released with over 13,000 commits from developers worldwide. Collabora contributed 64 commits and 111 sign-offs from twelve developers. A... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-5-1-8yltgyu4s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8ylTGyu4S.png og:image:alt: Linux Kernel 5.1 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 5.1 **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux Kernel 5.1 was released with over 13,000 commits from developers worldwide. Collabora contributed 64 commits and 111 sign-offs from twelve developers. A highlight contribution from Helen Koike enables booting directly to a device-mapper device via a kernel command line parameter, eliminating the initramfs requirement — a feature already shipped on Chrome OS and Android devices using AVB 2.0. Collabora also worked on SoC hardware enablement across multiple fronts including USB, graphics, Chrome EC, MTD, and I3C subsystems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the major new feature in Linux Kernel 5.1 related to booting without initramfs? Linux Kernel 5.1 introduced a mechanism to mount a mapped device at boot time through a kernel command line parameter, removing the previous initramfs requirement. This was contributed by Helen Koike as a joint effort between Google and Collabora engineers, upstreaming a feature already shipped on Chrome OS devices and Android devices using AVB 2.0. _Kernel developers tracking Linux boot subsystem changes follow releases like this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#kernel-development](https://daily.dev/tags/kernel-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-5-1-8yltgyu4s) ```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 5.1","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-5-1-8yltgyu4s","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-kernel-5-1-8yltgyu4s"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:55:49.271Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:40:59.405Z","description":"Linux Kernel 5.1 was released with over 13,000 commits from developers worldwide. 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