Easter Yields The Linux 3.15-rc2 Kernel Release
The second test release of the Linux 3.15 kernel is out precisely one week after the big 3.15-rc1 release; Linus has been making a good habit of accurately releasing kernel updates on Sunday.
There's many new features to the Linux 3.15 kernel with some of my favorite features being AMD VCE 2.0 video encoding support, EFI mixed mode support, file-system improvements, continued power management / ACPI work, virtualization improvements, near-complete support for building the Linux kernel with LLVM's Clang, and many other additions and new hardware driver support.
Merged in the past week was just all of the early fallout fixes to the Linux 3.15 kernel additions. Notable to 3.15-rc2 for Phoronix readers is the DRM graphics driver fixes that were merged but more fixes are still forthcoming. There's also been regression/bug-fixes for the common Linux file-systems and other key parts of the Linux kernel... It seems that most of the initial fallout from the Linux 3.15 changes are starting to settle and as a result in the days ahead I'll begin with my Linux 3.15 graphics benchmarks of the Radeon / Intel / Nouveau drivers, file-system benchmarks of EXT4 / Btrfs / XFS / F2FS, and other Linux kernel performance benchmarks.
Testing of early Linux kernel RCs isn't always encouraged for new/beginner Linux users... It's also not safe to touch everything at Chernobyl, per the Phoronix tour of Chernobyl from 2010 -- for newer Phoronix readers looking for light reading/viewing material this Easter weekend.