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Linux 2.6.33-rc6
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| Hmm. About 50% arch updates, and 40% drivers,
| with the rest being a smattering of mainly fs
| and networking updates.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/29/368
Intel Intelligent Power Sharing Coming To Linux
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| Jesse Barnes, one of the Intel developers
| responsible for working on their Linux
| graphics driver stack, has published a new
| patch that adds "dynamic performance control
| support for Ironlake." Ironlake was Intel's
| codename for the onboard GPU found on new
| Clarkdale / Arrandale processors like the
| recently reviewed Intel Core i3 530. This
| patch takes advantage of a hardware
| performance and power management feature to
| actually increase the GPU clock (or to
| "overclock" it in a Graphics Turbo mode) when
| needed to deliver better performance. This
| patch is fairly large and can be found
| currently on the Intel driver mailing list.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkzOQ
Recent:
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 2) - Storage
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| Extended discard support means that Linux
| now supports ATA TRIM, which can increase
| SSD lifespan and throughput. New additions
| to the Linux kernel include HA solution
| DRBD and drivers for HP, LSI and VMware
| storage hardware. The new kernel version,
| expected in early March, also includes
| many minor improvements to the code for
| the Btrfs, Ext4 and ReiserFS file systems.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-33-Part-2-Storage-914669.html
Linux 2.6.33-rc5
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| Hmm. I don't think there is anything earth-
| shaking here, although the i915 KMS changes
| might be noticeable. Notably if you have eDP
| ("embedded DisplayPort" - I think mainly a
| feature you'd find on a new imac), in which
| case it now hopefully works, but more
| commonly if you saw the flickering on your
| laptop panel due to LVDS downclocking (which
| saves power, but is now disabled by default
| until that thing is resolved).
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http://lwn.net/Articles/370711/
Subject Linux 2.6.33-rc4
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| Hmm. Odd release. Something like 40% of the
| patches are in DRM (mostly nouveau and radeon,
| both staging, so it's a bit less scary than it
| sounds. But there's a noticeable i915
| component too). That's all pretty unusual,
| afaik.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/13/19
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 1) - Networking
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| Linux 2.6.33 will have new and improved
| drivers for Wi-Fi chips by Intel, Ralink and
| Realtek. Several drivers for old Wi-Fi
| hardware have been moved to the staging area
| and will probably soon be discarded. New
| additions include various LAN chip drivers
| and several improvements to the network
| stack.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-33-Part-1-Networking-898841.html
Linux 2.6.33-rc3
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| It's been quiet due to the holidays, so -rc3
| is reasonably small despite being a few days
| over the normal one-week mark. And most of the
| changes are pretty trivial, although both
| ext4 and reiserfs had some trouble in -rc2,
| hopefully all fixed now.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/368827/
Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...
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| .. or wahetever it is you'll be celebrating
| today/tomorrow.
|
| And if you aren't celebrating anything at
| all, but instead sitting in your dark
| basement feeling lonely and bored, you can at
| least try out the latest -rc kernel. Because
| it's better than moping around doing nothing.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/24/130
Nouveau: A 2.6.33 Surprise
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| Linus has released the 2.6.33-rc1 prepatch,
| closing the merge window for this development
| cycle. This kernel has a few features which
| will shake things up, with dynamic tracing
| being near the top as far as I am concerned.
| But, perhaps, the most interesting addition is
| one that almost nobody expected: a reverse-
| engineered driver for NVIDIA graphics chipsets
| called âNouveau.â
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/171-jonathan-corbet/268052-nouveau-a-2633-surprise
Nouveau To Go Into Linux 2.6.33 Kernel!
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| Wow, the day has come, open-source fans with
| NVIDIA hardware that run Linux have quite the
| present this holiday season. Yesterday there
| was the first DRM pull request for the Linux
| 2.6.33 kernel that brought many changes to the
| ATI/AMD and Intel DRM along with other core DRM
| improvements (such as to the TTM memory
| manager). These changes were quite significant
| and we even called it a great present in the
| Linux 2.6.33 kernel.
|
| These DRM changes were accepted, but Linus
| Torvalds went off on a bit of rant wanting
| Nouveau merged into the kernel. A discussion
| ensued and after blaming Nouveau's lack of
| upstreaming on wanting the kernel/user-space
| API to potentially change in the future and
| then with Red Hat disclosing the Nouveau
| microcode problem that seemed to be pretty
| much that and we had not expected any
| immediate activity on the matter.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc5NQ
Linus Torvalds Accepts DRBD into Linux Kernel
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| Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux
| kernel community, has merged DRBD, an open
| source data replication solution, into Linux as
| a fully supported component. After exactly 10
| years of ongoing development work - software
| developer Phil Reisner wrote the first line of
| code on December 8, 1999 - Torvalds'
| acknowledgment means DRBD has become a fixture
| on the storage market.
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http://newsblaze.com/story/2009121012340800002.bw/topstory.html
Linus Wants Nouveau Merged Into Kernel
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| This morning the first DRM pull request went
| in for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel that brings
| many nice graphics changes for Intel,
| ATI/AMD, and VMware users. Anything for
| NVIDIA hardware through Novueau was not
| mentioned as there is no readied support, but
| as we stated in our article this morning, its
| unlikely to see Nouveau's DRM in the mainline
| kernel before the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. This
| is even though Fedora has been shipping
| Nouveau support for a few releases now and
| even Canonical is pulling in Nouveau KMS
| support for Ubuntu 10.04.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc5MA
Part 2 Of Nouveau Saga: The Microcode
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| Following a feature-packed DRM pull request
| this morning for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel,
| Linus Torvalds became frustrated that the
| Nouveau driver for supporting NVIDIA hardware
| was still not to be found in this most recent
| pull request. Linus wants Nouveau in the
| mainline kernel especially as Red Hat has
| already been shipping this free software
| driver in Fedora for two releases.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc5Mg
Nouveau Companion 41
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| Just in time for the holidays is a new Nouveau Companion newsletter to update
| the community on the status of this open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA driver that is
| written by clean room reverse-engineering of NVIDIA's binary driver. It has
| been a while since Nouveau Companion 40, but there is still active work going
| into this X.Org driver. Among the topics covered in the 41st edition of the
| Nouveau Companion is kernel mode-setting, Gallium3D, layering GEM on top of
| TTM (similar to the GEM-ified TTM Radeon driver), and thermal monitoring code
| for the Nouveau driver.
|
| Well, I bet most of you did not expect me to show up shortly before the end
| of the year with yet another TiNDC. There has been some turmoil regarding my
| job. At first it was too much work followed by a somewhat unexpected folding
| of the company. So I had to find a new job, which is why I never turned up
| for quite some time.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_companion_41&num=1
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