Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing

“Linus Torvalds has released the first RC of Linux 2.6.34 and
completed the integration of the next version of the kernel’s most
important changes. Improvements include graphics drivers for recent
Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors
that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new
addition is the LogFS SSD file system.

“With the release of Linux 2.6.34-rc1 on Monday night, Linus
Torvalds has closed the merge window of Linux 2.6.34 – only
12 days after releasing Linux 2.6.33. While Torvalds usually allows
at least two weeks at the beginning of each development cycle for
integrating the most important new features, he had already
indicated that the current first phase would be shorter in an
attempt to get subsystem maintainers out of the habit of submitting
their changes at the last minute.

“The developers made numerous further changes to the graphics
driver code. Among the new additions is a KMS graphics driver for
Radeon 5000 graphics cards and improved support of the power-saving
mechanisms in modern Radeon graphics chips. Major restructuring
measures in the kernel’s Nouveau driver have changed the API; this
has made older Nouveau drivers for X.org incompatible with the new
kernel. The Nouveau code can now generate the firmware for recent
graphics chips itself and no longer requires the external ctxprogs
that caused discussions when Nouveau was first integrated.”

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