- Nouveau: This is still premature, and not of much use until the supported features are a super set of those the proprietary drivers provide. (In particular 3d support, and video acceleration). However now that it's been accepted into staging, one can hope that work on this feature will accelerate.
- Recvmmsg(): Vectored system calls are always interesting, particularly when doing things on a massive scale. This looks to the first of many networking system calls to be vectorized, allowing for even greater throughput for services with high connection/datagram counts.
- Nintendo/Wii drivers: The more mainstream the hacking of common computer hardware gets the better. Need I say more?
- Reiserfs de-BKLification: This sounds promising. Reiserfs has fallen by the wayside since Ext4 came out. The presence of undesirable locking on SMP machines will not help that. With reiser4 nowhere to be seen, reiserfs needs tweaks such as this to remain competitive.
Thursday 25 February 2010
Linux 2.6.33
Stuff I think is interesting in this release:
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