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Linux Weather Forecast
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| This page is an attempt to track ongoing
| developments in the Linux development
| community that have a good chance of
| appearing in a mainline kernel and/or major
| distributions sometime in the near future.
| Your "chief meteorologist" is Jonathan
| Corbet, Executive Editor at LWN.net. If you
| have suggestions on improving the forecast
| (and particularly if you have a project or
| patchset that you think should be tracked),
| please add your comments to the Discussion
| page. There's a blog that reports on the
| main changes to the forecast. You can view
| it directly or use a feed reader to
| subscribe to the blog feed. You can also
| subscribe directly to the changes feed for
| this page to see feed all forecast edits.
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http://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/10938-linux-weather-forecast
Kernel summit group photo
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| The attendees of the 2009 Linux Kernel
| summit, October 20, 2009, in Tokyo, Japan.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/357651/
NVIDIA Developer Talks Openly About Linux Support
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| Q: What code management does NVIDIA use and
| are team members allowed to keep private
| branches in order to target specific issues
| (like new kernel or X.Org support)?
|
| We use Perforce for source control. Large
| new features are generally implemented in
| development branches, and then that code is
| promoted to our main line of code once it
| passes an internal quality bar. Release
| branches are then created off the main line
| of code.
|
| For miscellaneous hacking or
| experimentation, we'll generally use
| private branches in Perforce. Occasionally,
| individual engineers might track private
| changes using quilt or git before
| submitting their changes to Perforce.
|
| Q: Which text editors or IDEs do NVIDIA
| Linux developers use?
|
| Most of the engineers on the Linux driver
| team use emacs and/or vim for their day-to-
| day development work.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_qa_linux&num=1
Recent:
Linux drivers for Visioneer & Xerox DocuMate Scanners
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| JFL Peripheral Solutions has announced the
| availability of new Linux drivers, for
| Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners.
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http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=17158
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 1) â Network subsystem and network drivers
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| Between Thursday evening and Friday morning,
| Linus Torvalds released the fourth release
| candidate of Linux version 2.6.32, although,
| due to the typing error in the first release
| candidate (RC1 was mis-labeled RC2), it is
| called 2.6.32-rc5 instead of 2.6.32-rc4.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-32-Part-1-Network-subsystem-and-network-drivers-832229.html
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
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| To Linux users these graphics cards are also
| interesting in that they fully support all of
| the current features of VDPAU for Linux video
| decoding, including MPEG-4 support. We picked
| up an XFX GT220XZNF2 GeForce GT 220 1GB
| graphics card for this round of benchmarking
| on Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_gt_220&num=1
Linux 2.6.32-rc5
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| As mentioned in the -rc4 notes, this was a
| short week for the -rc series, since I'm
| leaving for the yearly kernel summit tomorrow
| morning. And obviously a lot of other kernel
| maintainers have left or will be leaving
| shortly, so I'd expect/hope that next week
| will be quiet too.
|
| 90% of the bulk of the changes since -rc4 are
| in drivers, with most of it coming from two
| new network drivers (stmmac and vmxnet3). But
| apart from the new drivers, there's almost 300
| commits in there, and most of them are pretty
| spread our random one- (or few-) liners: arch
| updates (arm, powerpc, x86), some filesystem
| updates (mainly btrfs), and some
| documentation, networking etc.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/15/408
Linux 2.6.32-rc4
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| One thing I will note, though. The next -rc is
| definitely going to be smaller, both because I will
| definitely refuse to merge drivers-from-hell, but
| perhaps more relevantly because it will be a "short
| week" release. The kernel summit is coming up, and in
| order to avoid doing the release from Tokyo while
| jetlagged, I'll almost certainly do -rc5 on Thursday.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/11/150
Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Released
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| Or not "entirely". As too many people pointed out, I had
| been somewhat less than careful, and the 2.6.32-rc1 release
| actually called itself -rc2 in the Makefile. As a result, I
| don't want to make a 2.6.32-rc2 release, since any bug-
| reports etc would then be met with the inevitable
| confusion: do you mean -rc2 as in the Makefile (ie really -
| rc1) or -rc2 as in the tagged release.
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http://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/103937-linux-2632-rc3-released
Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Kernel Released, No -rc2
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU4Mw
Kernel Log - Main development phase of Linux 2.6.32 completed
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| With the first release candidate of Linux 2.6.32, last
| night, Linus Torvalds completed the main development
| phase of the next version of Linux on the main
| development branch. As the kernel hackers already
| integrate most of a new kernel version's major changes
| into the source code management system during this
| phase, called the merge window, 2.6.32-rc1 is already
| a good indicator of the most important new features
| due for release with Linux 2.6.32 in early December.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-Main-development-phase-of-Linux-2-6-32-completed--/news/114340
Linux 2.6.32-rc1
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| It's been two weeks (and then some - but with last
| week being LinuxCon and Plumbers conf I extended it
| by a few days), and as usual that means that the merge
| window is all over and done with. 2.6.32-rc1 is out,
| so give it a whirl.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/27/166
Kernel Log - Devtmpfs in 2.6.32, more discussion about DRBD, new stable kernels
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| The development of Linux 2.6.32 is in full swing â
| although the integration of devtmpfs into the main
| development branch has caused considerable friction.
| The integration of DRBD, which already seemed certain,
| is also being debated again. X Server 7.5 is making
| progress as the developers release the first RC and
| several new drivers.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-Devtmpfs-in-2-6-32-more-discussion-about-DRBD-new-stable-kernels--/news/114284
DRM Changes For Linux 2.6.32 Kernel
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| David Airlie has just called for the first DRM pull
| request for the Linux 2.6.32 kernel. To no surprise,
| R600/700 3D support can be found within the Direct
| Rendering Manager code as with kernel mode-setting
| support for these newer ATI Radeon graphics cards.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU0Nw
KVM Virtualization Performance With Linux 2.6.31
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| These test results are designed to give just a basic
| overview of the level of KVM virtualization performance
| in different areas. Eventually we will run a larger set
| of tests across different virtualization
| infrastructures.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2631_kvm&num=1
Linux kernel 2.6.32: virtualization, power management and more drivers
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| Less than a week after Linux kernel 2.6.31 was released, the kernel
| developers are beginning to submit changes and improvements across
| virtualization, power management, file systems and device driver
| code for the upcoming 2.6.32 version.
|
| When releasing the 2.6.31 kernel, maintainer Linus Torvalds said
| the amount of device driver code has been steadily increasing since
| 2.6.27, but 2.6.32 will continue to aggressively add in bug fixes
| and performance enhancements across the entire code base.
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http://www.cio.com.au/article/318781/linux_kernel_2_6_32_virtualization_power_management_more_drivers
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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