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Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window
hypnosec writes "The Linux 3.11 merge window is about to close, most probably this Sunday, and most of the pull requests have been merged, including feature additions and improvements to disk & file system, CPU, graphics and other hardware. Some notable merges are: LZ4 compression; Zswap for compressed swap caching; inclusion of a Lustre file-system client for the first time; Dynamic Power Management (DPM) support for R600 GPUs; KVM and Xen virtualization on 64-bit hardware (AArch64); and a new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for the Renesas R-Car SoC."
Holding out for Linux 3.11 for workgroups.
This space for rent.
hahaha. I was going to post the same thing.
3.11, linux for workgroups!
And YES, we are going to see almost nothing but comments making variations of this joke.
and a new DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for the Renesas R-Car SoC
I'm surprised the Slashdot headline didn't read "DRM Coming to Linux" or some other such nonsense. :-)
"What are you doing here, Elijah?"
The linux for workgroups 32bit extension. Then you get the real power of the system.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/485159-a-conversation-with-linus-torvalds
"I think I will call 3.11 Linux for Workgroups."
The Radeon DPM is for more than R600, I've got it working on my souther islands card easily.
"If I can't have Linux for Bob
I don't want nobody, baby"
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
fck, wrong article.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
A classic troll technique. Pretend you posted to the wrong article.
serious question, everything else does nowadays
Really, pretending to post to the wrong article, and then posting as an AC pointing out that you're trolling?
That kind of trolling is so old it could vote.
lin me is gonna be so much better
you're trying too hard
I remember learning Unix shell, compilation, basic C programming on X11 terminals (there were a couple hundreds of them) and something like Solaris 7. We were given an ugly login shell (black on white xterm), the motif window manager (mwm) and that's all.
It was funny as it really looked and acted like Windows 3.1, only without the program manager, file manager or control panel. It also had alt-f9 to minimize, alt-f10 to maximize, alt-f7 to move etc. which is really cool and still found on Gnome2/Mate and Xfce at least.
It was really fun trying to fo something useful in that environment, some guy had made a crude launcher (we had to walk into his home directory), I used aliases for e.g. launching a green on black xterm rxvt with nice font size and much bigger scroll buffer, we figured out how to have a background image on the "desktop".
I looked for it in vain on linux, tried to download Lesstif but it's only libraries and nothing else. Now maybe we'll be able to use it at last?, lol. I hope they open source mwm, along Motif and CDE.
It was also both minimalist (more so than say Fluxbox or jwm) and easy to use, unlike twm and myriads of "worse than Windows 3.1" window managers. One little issue was you lost everything when closing the login shell by accident (but you thus never get into a situation where all shell windows or all windows all closed and you can't open a new terminal)
It's about time to have dynamic power management for Radeons (from a user point of view, don't know how difficult it is). It's just a bad default to have it spinning at full speed all the time, because most graphics card make a lot of noise when running at full speed. The alternative was to default to a low power mode, which reduces the performance for anyone who doesn't bother to look up the controls.
The problem with dynamic PM is that many times you need the performance quickly and for a short time. Can the card switch modes in much less than a 120th of a second, such that you don't get an impact on performance (on at 120Hz monitor)? Can it detect that it needs to switch modes in a similarly short time? It's not that bad of a problem, because most cards can run the desktop effects in low power mode (didn't work for me on Gnome, but I assume that's a bug since it was great in KDE). The main problem would be with hardware video decoding or deinterlacing and gaming, but I don't think the open driver supports any video decoding, and deinterlacing should have a reasonably constant load.
Overall, great to have dynamic PM. It may help with laptop battery life for many people who haven't bothered to check the PM settings before. For me who turns down the performance to low, I don't have to remember to turn it up before playing games etc.
In a related posting about Linux kernel development I asked why embedded single-board-computer manufacturers always seemed to be way behind in versions and why they don't keep up with versions but I didn't really get a satisfactory answer. So let me ask this another way: are there any commercial single-board-computers or commercial embedded devices that use 3.11 (or the most recent stable mainline kernel)?
For those that don't know AArch64 stands for ARM 64 this part of the ./ post might be quite misleading: "KVM and Xen virtualization on 64-bit hardware (AArch64);"
I hope to hell someone discovers a fix for KMS - my desktop, laptop, & netbook boot up so often to a blank screen I think I accidentally booted to Winblows!!!! & no, I don't want to boot to a graphical screen - I like booting to a console!
Zswap for compressed swap caching
Is it full replacement for zram swap space?