Linux 2.6.31-rc1 Kernel Released

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM0OQ

[BlackStar]

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

[deanjo]

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)

[d2kx]

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

[kraftman]

I am the most interested in perfcounters. They can even catch hardware delays

[Hibbelharry]

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.

[susikala]

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.

[smitty3268]

Hm, could you maybe explain what performance (I take perf means that) counters mean/do? I tried to find some documentation, to no avail.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/4/401

[kraftman]

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

[szczerb]

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):

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13637