wraggster
October 24th, 2011, 18:51
Linux 3.1 has been released (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/24/212). The changes include (http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.1) support for the OpenRISC opensource CPU (http://opencores.org/or1k/Main_Page); performance improvements to the writeback throttling; some speedups in the slab allocator; a new iSCSI implementation; support for NFC chips; bad block management in the generic software RAID layer; a new 'cpupowerutils' utility for power management (http://lwn.net/Articles/433002/); filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3; Wii Controller support; and [the usual] new drivers and many small improvements.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1445250/linux-31-released-with-support-for-the-openrisc-cpu
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1445250/linux-31-released-with-support-for-the-openrisc-cpu