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    Phoronix: Linux 2.6.31-rc1 Kernel Released

    Quite a lot has made its way into the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, particularly Radeon kernel mode-setting and the new TTM GPU memory manager, but now the merge window for this release cycle is closing. Linus Torvalds last night released Linux 2.6.31-rc1 as the first test release of this new code...

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    What's with all those ARM architectures? Strange world...

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    • #3
      Another thing that people have been waiting for as well with this kernel is the merging of the x-fi alsa driver into the tree. (Which BTW is in there)

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      • #4
        btrfs has dramatic performance improvements aswell. Not even Linus could handle them.

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        • #5
          I am the most interested in perfcounters. They can even catch hardware delays
          Last edited by kraftman; 26 June 2009, 04:02 PM.

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          • #6
            2.6.31-rc1 with kms enabled i915 driver panics here on my thinkpad x61s/gm965 with some errors in framebuffer driver. 2.6.30 works fine. Since it's late here no further investigation for today.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by kraftman View Post
              I am the most interested in perfcounters. They can even catch hardware delays
              Hm, could you maybe explain what performance (I take perf means that) counters mean/do? I tried to find some documentation, to no avail.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by susikala View Post
                Hm, could you maybe explain what performance (I take perf means that) counters mean/do? I tried to find some documentation, to no avail.

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                • #9
                  I am the most interested in perfcounters. They can even catch hardware delays
                  Sorry, this can:

                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/18/460

                  @Susikala

                  I can not explain this better than Smitty

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Hibbelharry View Post
                    2.6.31-rc1 with kms enabled i915 driver panics here on my thinkpad x61s/gm965 with some errors in framebuffer driver. 2.6.30 works fine. Since it's late here no further investigation for today.
                    Same for me. I was gonna file a bug yesterday, but there is one already (I guess I'll add a comment with confirmation today):

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