Linux 4.1 Brings Many Potentially Risky x86/ASM Changes Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 13 April 2015 at 12:27 PM EDT. 6 Comments Another one of the Linux 4.1 pull requests sent in today by Ingo Molnar is for the x86/asm code. There's a lot of new work that's gone into the Linux 4.1 kernel with this pull, which could potentially cause regressions, particularly with the Assembly code.