Slashdot Mirror
Linux Kernel 4.7 Officially Released (iu.edu)
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: The Linux 4.7 kernel made its official debut today with Linus Torvalds announcing, "after a slight delay due to my travels, I'm back, and 4.7 is out. Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn't all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners." Linux 4.7 ships with open-source AMD Polaris (RX 480) support, Intel Kabylake graphics improvements, new ARM platform/board support, Xbox One Elite Controller support, and a variety of other new features.
Slashdot reader prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: The biggest new features of Linux kernel 4.7 are support for the recently announced Radeon RX 480 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) from AMD, which, of course, has been implemented directly into the AMDGPU video driver, a brand-new security module, called LoadPin, that makes sure the modules loaded by the kernel all originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.7 is the first one to ensure the production-ready status of the sync_file fencing mechanism used in the Android mobile operating system, allow Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) programs to attach to tracepoints, as well as to introduce the long-anticipated "schedutil" frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem, which promises to be faster and more accurate than existing ones.
Linus's announcement includes the shortlog, calling this release "fairly calm," though "There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving."
Slashdot reader prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: The biggest new features of Linux kernel 4.7 are support for the recently announced Radeon RX 480 GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) from AMD, which, of course, has been implemented directly into the AMDGPU video driver, a brand-new security module, called LoadPin, that makes sure the modules loaded by the kernel all originate from the same file system, and support for generating virtual USB Device Controllers in USB/IP. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.7 is the first one to ensure the production-ready status of the sync_file fencing mechanism used in the Android mobile operating system, allow Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) programs to attach to tracepoints, as well as to introduce the long-anticipated "schedutil" frequency governor to the cpufreq dynamic frequency scaling subsystem, which promises to be faster and more accurate than existing ones.
Linus's announcement includes the shortlog, calling this release "fairly calm," though "There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving."
You misspelled idididots, idiot.
Did I read that right? I thought XBOne controllers were limited to Windows due to some DRM/TPU/Trusted computing thing.
Does that mean the linux powered Steam Box may someday have an upgrade path to support the XBOne controller?
moox. for a new generation.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
I assume that your ignorance of him and his contribution to technology, computing and the Internet means that you're just a /pol jerk here to troll. Fek off ya buftie coont.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's perfectly fine, as long as you're a Lisp programmer. Otherwise, you might prefer to call him Tim Berners_Lee instead.
Ezekiel 23:20
"The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards."
^Wikipedia
The WWW is far too open to have been invented by apple.
DRM in Linux was an acronym before Windows and the MPAA started controlling what you can and can't see on your computer.
Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
A "linguistic device"? So, you know as little about language as you do about technology and computing.
At least you admit that Tim Berners-Lee has a hyphenated last name. Now you try again.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Is that his Indian name? Mine was "Drinks-From-Saucer".
You are welcome on my lawn.
This is change for the sake of change.
I expect all the changes backported into 2.6 as I do not want to use a kernel designed for teenagers and throw out perfectly good working computers and learn something new all over again
http://saveie6.com/
Please cite please. I'm not convinced that direct rendering predates digital rights management.
This may blow your mind, but Taylor Swift's last name really isn't "Swift".
It's Boat?
A fine Argonian name.
The acronym DRM (direct rendering management) first appeared in the Linux Kernel in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
DRM (digital rights management) is more difficult to trace back because it is a generic term and not a specific technology.
Here are the number of references by Google Scholar for "Digital Rights Management" DRM
https://scholar.google.fr/scho...
1999 = 17 ...
2000 = 43
2001 = 205
2002 = 378
2003 = 740
2010 = 1610
So in 1999, the terminology DRM (digital rights management) existed but was not mainstream. This is consistent with my own memory. At the time I first saw DRM (digital rights management), I already knew about the Linux DRM for a few years.
Man we're off topic now:
Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania.[3] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a financial advisor, and her mother, Andrea Swift, is a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.[4][5] She has a younger brother named Austin.[6] Swift spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township, Pennsylvania.[7][8] She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns,[9] before moving to the Wyndcroft School.[10] The family then moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,[11] where she attended Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.[12] Swift summered at her parents' oceanfront vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, describing it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed".[13]
Source.
Why not just link to the actual announcement?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/24/151
'cos Spain doesn't exist on your alternative earth?
Watch this Heartland Institute video
I just ponder the unsustainability of that particular family naming algorithm
What algorithm? Some surnames are double barrelled and passed on the usual way, such as Fotherington-Thomas.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
of course, it's integrated into systemd.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If you were thinking about Molesworth's Fotherington-Thomas, that most girly of boys is an unfortunate choice for this discussion. How about Cholmondeley-Warner?
In the UK, double-barrelled names are often associated with old, rich or land-owning families, where they were used to keep a family name alive (not to be confused with shotgun weddings).
If you were thinking about Molesworth's Fotherington-Thomas, that most girly of boys is an unfortunate choice for this discussion.
Chiz chiz chiz
SJW n. One who posts facts.
He's utterly wet and a weed
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing