Driver update and improvement for Linux kernel 3.12

Linus Torvalds announces the 3.12 stable version of the kernel, bringing a number of driver updates and improvements, such as Radeon Graphics, AMD APU, Qualcomm Owl/adreno,nvidia Optimus, various file systems and other driver updates.

Linus in the mailing list said: "I was hesitant to come to a RC8, but next week to travel, the internet is not good, or no delay." And said that after 3.19 will enter the 4.0 era, but that is a year later things.

New features of this edition:

The Radeon open-source kernel graphics driver has Dynamic power improved, Management it but ' t be won Linux until 3.13 E Radeon DPM is enabled by default along with HDMI audio.

A brand new drm/kms driver in the form of the Snapdragon MSM driver written by Rob Clark to go along and his reverse-engi neered Freedreno driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon/adreno graphics.

Run-time GPU Power Management so NVIDIA Optimus systems can dynamically power on/off the secondary GPU.

Experimental DRM render nodes support done by David Herrmann over the summer.

AMD Berlin APU Support as the built upon AMD ' s heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA).

The EXT4 File-system now supports aggressive extent caching and better recovery.

Random f2fs, XFS, and Btrfs file-system improvements. This kernel does deliver on disk improvements.

Zram has been promoted out of the staging area of the kernel. Zram supports a compressed block device into RAM to avoid paging to disk and are mostly of benefit for systems with limited a Mounts of system memory.

Various staging driver updates and sound driver work and other glorious work.

The Ubuntu department can download and install upgrades here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-saucy/

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