DRM Pull Request Goes In For The Linux 3.8 Kernel
Posted by Michael Larabel on December 17, 2012
David Airlie has sent in the highly-anticipated DRM pull request for the Linux 3.8 kernel. This includes the new Tegra driver and changes to the Nouveau/Radeon/Intel graphics drivers.
Highlights of the DRM changes in Linux 3.8 include:
- The open-source NVIDIA Tegra driver that supports Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 hardware. The 2D acceleration support is still being worked on.
- The Radeon driver notably supports the a-sync DMA engines for providing significant performance improvements.
- The Radeon driver also supports more HDMI registers, evicion speed-ups, and various fixes.
- The Intel driver should finally have Haswell hardware support in good shape plus various other work.
- Samsung Exynos support improvements including the integration of the IPP sub-system.
- The Nouveau driver has display class re-working plus Z-compression support for NV20 through NV40 GPUs.
- The Intel GMA600 Poulsbo driver now has HDMI support.
- TTM memory management has the start of locking fixes plus RCU usage for look-ups.
- Core DRM has documentation updates, DocBook integration, Monotonic clock usage, and other changes.
The Linux 3.8 DRM pull request can be found on the DRI mailing list.
Highlights of the DRM changes in Linux 3.8 include:
- The open-source NVIDIA Tegra driver that supports Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 hardware. The 2D acceleration support is still being worked on.
- The Radeon driver notably supports the a-sync DMA engines for providing significant performance improvements.
- The Radeon driver also supports more HDMI registers, evicion speed-ups, and various fixes.
- The Intel driver should finally have Haswell hardware support in good shape plus various other work.
- Samsung Exynos support improvements including the integration of the IPP sub-system.
- The Nouveau driver has display class re-working plus Z-compression support for NV20 through NV40 GPUs.
- The Intel GMA600 Poulsbo driver now has HDMI support.
- TTM memory management has the start of locking fixes plus RCU usage for look-ups.
- Core DRM has documentation updates, DocBook integration, Monotonic clock usage, and other changes.
The Linux 3.8 DRM pull request can be found on the DRI mailing list.
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