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The Mobile View: Linux Kernel 2.6.33
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| Last week brought the arrival of a new
| Linux kernel, version 2.6.33. With it, came
| quite a few changes likely to interest
| device developers. So, here is a breakdown
| of the most significant mobile/embedded
| updates to come in the latest kernel.
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http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/291262:dissecting-linux-kernel-2633-from-mobileembedded-perspective-
Linux 2.6.34-rc1 Kernel Is Out w/ New Features
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| Of a lot of interest to us (and likely you
| too) are all of the GPU DRM updates in the
| Linux 2.6.34 kernel that includes GPU
| hybrid switching, initial ATI Radeon HD
| 5000 series KMS support (a.k.a.
| "Evergreen"), controversial Nouveau
| changes, ATI Radeon KMS power management
| support, Intel Sandy Bridge support, and
| much more.
|
| Outside of the graphics fun in this kernel
| to be officially released next quarter is a
| new filesystem (Logfs), a hardware driver
| for Apple's Magic Mouse, virtualization
| improvements, and other updates
| particularly to the Linux drivers and
| architectures.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA0OQ
2.6.33 is Out! Say Good Bye to the Anticipatory Scheduler
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| As mentioned in a previous article a great
| place to start learning about new features
| of the latest kernels is Kernel Newbie
| site. Kernel newbies has a nice review of
| the latest kernel, 2.6.33. There are a few
| things around storage that I want to point
| out.
|
| The biggest thing is that the anticipatory
| IO scheduler. In a article I did a quick
| glance at the IO schedulers in the kernel.
| One of them is called the Anticipartory
| Scheduler that anticipates subsequent block
| requests and caches them for use. Putting
| on your storage expert hat one can see that
| the anticipatory scheduler works really
| well for certain workloads. For example it
| has been observed that the Apache web
| server may achieve up to 71% more
| throughput using the anticipatory IO
| scheduler. On the other hand, it has been
| observed that the anticipatory scheduler
| has caused up to a 15% slowdown on a
| database run.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7724/
James Bottomley speaks
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| James Bottomley, and Iâm a distinguished
| engineer at Novell.
|
| My primary role for the Linux kernel is to
| be SCSI subsystem maintainer, which means I
| have to run a Git tree for Linux and manage
| a mailing-list-based community (SCSI is
| also a fairly enterprise-oriented
| community, so if thereâs tension between
| desktop needs and enterprise needs, it
| tends to be the flash point). Iâm also one
| of the maintainers of PA-RISC (HPâs old
| RISC system) in the kernel, and Iâve
| written and maintained a few SCSI drivers.
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http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/interviews/james-bottomley-speaks/
X.Org SoC: Gallium3D H.264, OpenGL 3.2, GNU/Hurd
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| There's a few months left until it's
| summertime in the northern hemisphere, but
| Google is already preparing for their
| annual Summer of Code (SoC) project as are
| their projects involved. X.Org will once
| again be part of the Summer of Code program
| where Google pays various student
| developers to work on different free
| software projects. While nothing is yet
| officially determined for the X.Org SoC
| work, there are some ideas expressed by the
| X.Org developers for any interested
| students.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA0Ng
Video: Interview with Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation
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| During CeBIT Open Source 2010 Jim Zemlin,
| executive director of the Linux Foundation,
| found the time for an interview with Linux
| Pro Magazine.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Video-Interview-with-Jim-Zemlin-Linux-Foundation
Recent:
Kernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without
firmware, new graphics drivers
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| The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started
| and is causing heated discussions on the
| LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9
| for security fixes and found almost
| twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes
| proprietary files from the kernel, and new
| graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer
| numerous improvements.
|
| A day after the release of Linux 2.6.33 in
| the last week of February, Linus Torvalds
| started merging the most important changes
| for Linux 2.6.34. By last Friday, he had
| integrated almost five thousand commits,
| which has added almost two hundred thousand
| lines of code to the kernel. Among the new
| additions to the kernel are the drivers for
| Apple's Magic Mouse, a Python scripting
| engine for the tracing subsystem, and the
| vhost_net Virtio server designed to reduce
| overheads when exchanging data with guest
| systems via Virtio.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Stable-kernels-analysed-Linux-without-firmware-new-graphics-drivers-948051.html
Major Linux 2.6.34 Kernel GPU DRM Updates
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| There's already quite a bit of code that has
| been merged into the Linus 2.6 Git tree for
| the Linux 2.6.34 kernel tree, but the first
| pull request for the DRM (Direct Rendering
| Manager) code has went in this morning.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODAyMg
Linux Foundation Announces 2010 âWeâre Linuxâ Video Contest: The Linux Super Bowl Ad
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| âWeâre Linuxâ returns for the second year in a
| row, aims to surface creative user-generated
| ads for the popular operating system
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2010/02/linux-foundation-announces-2010-%E2%80%9Cwe%E2%80%99re-linux%E2%80%9D-video-contest-linux-s
Linux Foundation announces "We're Linux" video contest
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| Submissions are open until the 4th of April,
| 2010.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-Foundation-announces-We-re-Linux-video-contest-922974.html
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