Misc

Linux 2.6.33-rc4 Kernel: 40% DRM Changes

One week after pushing out the third release candidate for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, Linus Torvalds has issued the fourth release candidate. In his mailing list announcement, Linus characterizes the Linux 2.6.33-rc4 kernel as being an "odd release" as a bulk of the changes "all pretty unusual." What got changed? Well, lots of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code ended up getting pulled. Linus noted in his message that around 40% of the changes for this new test release are for the DRM code, largely to do with the ATI Radeon driver as well as the Nouveau driver for NVIDIA hardware that recently went mainline...

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