The Belated Linux 3.1 Kernel Is Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Belated Linux 3.1 Kernel Is Released

In the early hours of the morning, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 3.1 kernel final...

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

[Pfanne]

i'd really like to see nfc take off.
could be the future of sharing files locally with mobile devices

[kacperpl1]

While nvc1 nouveau started to work under 3.1 it suprisingly sucks so much(For example my GT420M on nouveau runs HoN at ~0.2 FPS while I've been playing the game back in the days on my old radeon Xpress 1150 on gallium) I'm back again to proprietary. Hope either proprietaries get better at xrandr and will let me relog/restartX or switch monitor safely on my fermi or acceleration on nouveau gets better for my gpu. Anyway FUC for fermies works now and its good news.

[Scullder]

Others reports

If you speak French, you can read the usual report here : https://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-du-noyau-linux%C2%A031
It's the best articles I've found on the topic, with sometimes an interview of a kernel hacker
Kernelnewbies changelog sum-up is also interesting : http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

[orzel]

bad patch for 3.1

This needs to be confirmed, but i think the official patches for 3.1 are buggy: they do not have the actual content of the (new) files Documentation/DocBook/v4l/*.pdf
That is, if you download linux-3.0 and apply the 3.1 patch, you wont have those files, while they are in the linux-3.1.

[mazumoto]

Link to Linus' announcement on LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/24/212

[deanjo]

Link to Linus' announcement on LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/24/212

I really hate when they don't post the full changelog from the previous official release.

[AnonymousCoward]

I really hate when they don't post the full changelog from the previous official release.

Here you are: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/497654/

[deanjo]

Here you are: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/497654/

Thanks. I find it far easier to find module specific issues in a change log then it is navigating through a couple of months mailing list to see if something has been addressed in a release.

[MuPuF]

While nvc1 nouveau started to work under 3.1 it suprisingly sucks so much(For example my GT420M on nouveau runs HoN at ~0.2 FPS while I've been playing the game back in the days on my old radeon Xpress 1150 on gallium) I'm back again to proprietary. Hope either proprietaries get better at xrandr and will let me relog/restartX or switch monitor safely on my fermi or acceleration on nouveau gets better for my gpu. Anyway FUC for fermies works now and its good news.

Nvc1 and nvd9 aren't supported by Nouveau. You didn't have hw acceleration, that's why you had terrible performance.