The New Features To The Linux 3.16 Kernel | Linux Today

The New Features To The Linux 3.16 Kernel

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Michael Larabel
Jun 17, 2014

Nouveau has initial GK20A GPU support. The GK20A is the Kepler GPU found within the Tegra K1 SoC. NVIDIA contributed this GK20A support themselves and there’s also outstanding Nouveau Mesa patches to allow for this latest NVIDIA ARM chip to work with a fully-open driver stack!

– Also big for the Nouveau driver in Linux 3.16 is initial support for re-clocking with Kepler hardware and other select chipsets.

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Michael Larabel

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