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Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-big-and-fancy-yet? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Linux 4.4-rc1 has been released. New features of Linux 4.4 include a Raspberry Pi kernel mode-setting driver, support for 3D acceleration by QEMU guest virtual machines, AMD Stoney APU support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 support, expanded eBPF virtual machine programs, new hardware peripheral support, file-system fixes, faster SHA crypto support on Intel hardware, and LightNVM / Open-Channel SSD support.

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  1. Re:Yeah, so? by Kidbro · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meanwhile, every single major revision of the kernel has been announced on Slashdot for at least as far back as I can remember (2.2 something).
    So how you can't "expect" it to happen is a mystery indeed.

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