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Linux 2.6.31 Accelerates Performance
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| Linux is gaining support for new hardware -- particularly USB 3.0 devices
| -- and a new performance subsystem, courtesy of the newly released Linux
| 2.6.31 kernel.
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| The previous 2.6.30 kernel included improvement to boot times, which is
| something that is further improved in the new 2.6.31 kernel Kroah-Hartman
| noted that with the additional boot speed enhancements, his Moblin-based
| netbook can now boot the kernel in less than a second.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3838531
Forecast:
2.6.31 is out
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| My guesses? The 2.6.32 kernel should come out sometime around the
| beginning of December. It will include even better ATI Radeon support
| (with proper 3D acceleration, hopefully), the much-publicized âhvâ
| drivers from Microsoft (though those may be removed before too long since
| the developers seem to have lost interest in maintaining them), some
| significant power management improvements, a number of changes aimed at
| improving virtualization performance, and a vast number of other things -
| stay tuned.
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http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2009/09/10/2631-is-out/
Recent:
New, Updated Drivers Coming To Linux 2.6.32
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| Over three dozen Linux staging drivers are mentioned, but there's a few
| interesting comments in particular. For instance, Google's Android drivers
| may end up being dropped from the staging tree within the Linux 2.6.32
| cycle. While Android uses Linux and Google is quite friendly with Linux
| and different open-source projects, the developers working on the upstream
| Android drivers aren't caring whether or not this code enters the mainline
| kernel. Instead these developers are just concerning themselves with
| running the drivers on the Linux 2.6.29 kernel they currently are using.
| If this continues to occur, the Android drivers will disappear from the
| staging tree. In a similar situation, Microsoft's Hyper-V drivers may end
| up getting dropped in the Linux 2.6.33 release.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzUxOQ
Linux 2.6.32 To Get R600 KMS Along With 3D
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| Additionally, this code provides firmware loading support for the
| r128/mga/radeon + Radeon KMS drivers, the latest Intel drm-next code, Radeon
| R100/200 KMS command stream checking, Radeon KMS TV-Out support, merged FB
| handling for all KMS drivers, and DMT timings + better HDMI EDID decoding.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzUxNgx
KMS Page-Flipping Ioctl Ready For Linux 2.6.32
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| Kristian HÃgsberg has announced that the work he and Jesse Barnes, Jakob
| Bornecrantz, and Chris Wilson have been working on for the past few months is
| now ready for prime-time action. This work is the mode-setting page-flip
| ioctl for the kernel DRM. What this work basically leads to is tear-free
| updating of the screen with low-latency page-flipping.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzQ2MQ
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