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Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU

Posted by Unknown on from the hardware-wants-to-be-free-too dept.

diegocg writes "Linux 3.1 has been released. The changes include support for the OpenRISC opensource CPU; performance improvements to the writeback throttling; some speedups in the slab allocator; a new iSCSI implementation; support for NFC chips; bad block management in the generic software RAID layer; a new 'cpupowerutils' utility for power management; filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3; Wii Controller support; and [the usual] new drivers and many small improvements."

3 of 165 comments (clear)

  1. Re:3.1! and I'm still stuck on 2.6... by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Informative

    2.6.39 --> 3.0 instead of 2.6.40

  2. Re:3 series by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Linus got sick of 2.6.really_big_number

  3. Re:3 series by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Informative

    "So what are the big changes?

    "NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we have the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is just about renumbering, we are very much not doing a KDE-4 or a Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at all like that. We've been doing time-based releases for many years now, this is in no way about features. If you want an excuse for the renumbering, you really should look at the time-based one ('20 years') instead.

    tl;dr - Nothing happened.