Linux 3.15 Kernel Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 3.15 Kernel Released

The Linux 3.15 kernel has now been released...

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

[dungeon]

Cheers

[fritsch]

Shame about the UVD regression though.

Come on. In the long term, that reduced clocks get us "cooler" hardware and less power consumption. And when they take postprocessing into account and keep the gpu clocks up, all is fine. Check the great other stuff that was implemented for AMD in that version (vblank optimizations, suspend / resume fixes and a lot more).

And btw: You did not report that issue during all RCs - so don't complain on release day.

[PeterUbuntu]

Also Linus has now officially send his message on 3.15:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/8/70

So I ended up doing an rc8 because I was a bit worried about some
last-minute dcache fixes, but it turns out that nobody seemed to even
notice those. We did have other issues during the week, though, so it
was just as well. The futex fixes and cleanups may stand out, but as
usual there's various other random fixes since rc8 in there too:
mainly drivers (drm, networking, sound, usb etc), networking,
scheduling and perf tooling.

But it's all been fairly small and quiet, which *may* of course be due
to the fact that last week was also the first week of the merge window
for 3.16. That might have distracted some developers. I'm not entirely
convinced I liked the overlap, but it seemed to work ok, and unless
people scream really loudly ("Please don't _ever_ do that again") and
give good reasons for doing so, I might end up doing that overlapping
merge window in the future too if it ends up helping out with some
particular timing issue.

That said, I also don't think it was such a wonderful experience that
I'd want to necessarily do the overlap every time, without a good
specific reason for doing so. It was kind of nice being productive
during the last week or rc (which is usually quite boring and dead),
but I think it might be a distraction when people should be worrying
about the stability of the rc.

Of course, maybe the overlap ends up meaning that we get less noise
during the last week of stabilization, and it actually helps. It could
go either way. I'd be interested to hear what people thought, although
I _suspect_ most people don't feel strongly either way.

Anyway, with 3.15 released, my "master" branch has already merged the
work in my "next" branch on my local machine, and I'll be
decommissioning the "next" branch once I push that all out. After
that, any future merge window work will happen on "master", and we'll
be back to the normal single-branch model for my tree.

Linus

[dungeon]

Shame about the UVD regression though.

What UVD regression? I know radeon is popular, but kernel is not all about radeon driver .

Beyond rc8 have couple fixes for radeon too, so just compiled it... have Athlon 5350 here, works fine .

[fritsch]

What UVD regression? I know radeon is popular, but kernel is not all about radeon driver .

Beyond rc8 have couple fixes for radeon too, so just compiled it... have Athlon 5350 here, works fine .

The new dynamic UVD clocks, clock a bit too low (especially also the GPU), so that E-series can't do decoding and postprocessing with the temporal deinterlacer (mesa 10.2) at once.
See here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/054361.html

You might realize it, when you decode 1080p60 or 1080p50 content and when doing postprocessing, but that's all, just a minor already identified regression, which can be fixed easily.

[dungeon]

What Alex says:

If that becomes an issue, we can add a sysfs attribute to force the max UVD state.

So is there option to force max? I guess deadite66 will be satisfied with that .

[dungeon]

i tried changing /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level but it won't budge off auto, so nothing in place.

That option is about DPM, not about UVD.

http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=57

BTW not sure why that is not working for you, maybe it is not supported on all chips...

[GreatEmerald]

Yay. Now hopefully Gentoo will stabilise 3.14 in three weeks time. (That would allow me to ditch Catalyst without unmasking the kernel version manually while I'm upgrading razor-qt to lxqt. Small things, but would make my day )

[arabek]

Yay. Now hopefully Gentoo will stabilise 3.14 in three weeks time. (That would allow me to ditch Catalyst without unmasking the kernel version manually while I'm upgrading razor-qt to lxqt. Small things, but would make my day )

You mean 3.15? Right?

navarro ~ # uname -a
Linux navarro 3.14.5-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 7 11:12:32 CEST 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux