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Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.33 enters test phase
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| With the end of the next kernel version's
| main development phase, the most important
| new features of Linux 2.6.33 have been
| determined: DRBD, Nouveau, support of the
| Trim ATA command and a bandwidth controller
| for block devices. The developers have also
| improved the Radeon drivers and the support
| of Intel Wi-Fi chips. New stable kernels
| also fix a vulnerability in the code of
| Ext4, but will shortly be superseded by
| even more current versions.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-Linux-2-6-33-enters-test-phase-890581.html
AMD Publishes Evergreen Shader Documents
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| Yesterday some R500+ PowerPlay code was
| started on (but not yet usable), and now at
| the same time we have more exciting AMD
| news to report. AMD has just released their
| shader instruction set documentation for
| the R800 "Evergreen" graphics processors!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgzMg
Open ATI Driver To Receive PowerPlay Push?
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| AMD's Alex Deucher just pushed out new
| power table define statements for the xf86-
| video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd drivers.
| Nothing is yet depending upon these new C
| define statements within the open-source
| ATI drivers, but it will allow a variety of
| new PowerPlay information to revealed.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgzMA
Mesa 7.7 Released (Mesa 7.6.1 Too)
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| Mesa 7.7 delivers on VMware's virtual
| Gallium3D driver (the SVGA driver) that
| allows for Gallium3D to be used on their
| virtualization platform, several new OpenGL
| extensions, major improvements to the ATI
| R300 Gallium3D driver (named "r300g"), and
| a new Mesa texture/surface format
| infrastructure.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgzMQ
Nouveau TV-Out Progresses For NV30/40 GPUs
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| The Nouveau driver now has TV-Out working
| and being considered "done" for the NV30
| class GPUs (the GeForce 5 / FX series) and
| is mostly done for NV40 GPUs (the GeForce 6
| series). The TV output support for the
| earlier GPUs and also the newer GPUs is
| still considered a work in progress.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgzNA
Recent:
Linux 2.6.33 RC1
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| Talking about the merge window: there were a
| _lot_ of trees that left their pull requests
| pretty dang late. Not everything I merged
| yesterday and today were late pull requests,
| but a lot of it was. I'm used to have a
| fairly busy last day of the merge window, but
| it was a busy last two days this time -
| definitely worse than usual.
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/929499
Kernel Log: New stable kernels, 2.6.33 with DRBD and RT2800PCI
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| Kernel versions 2.6.27.40, 2.6.27.41 and
| 2.6.31.7 offer minor improvements and correct
| several bugs â including one security hole.
| Torvalds has already incorporated more than
| 5,000 changes for Linux 2.6.33. Its merge
| window will probably be open for just over
| another week. Various developers are working
| on significant improvements to the open source
| Radeon graphics drivers.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-New-stable-kernels-2-6-33-with-DRBD-and-RT2800PCI-883212.html
A Great Present In The Linux 2.6.33 Kernel
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| David Airlie has just called upon Linus
| Torvalds to pull in the latest DRM patches
| for inclusion into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel.
| The Direct Rendering Manager improvements in
| this next kernel release will be
| particularly interesting and are perhaps as
| significant as earlier kernels that had
| introduced kernel mode-setting support for
| Intel and ATI/AMD hardware along with in-
| kernel memory management. The changes that
| the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will bring are
| aplenty and will impact almost all of those
| using an open-source graphics driver stack.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc4OQ
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