Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.39:
· Support for Cayman family AMD graphics chips (Radeon HD 6790 – 6970) – 2D and 3D acceleration is still not available;
· Z compression support for the Nouveau driver;
· Better support for GMA500 Intel chips;
· Support for next-get ipset;
· Support for Intel 2000 series WLAN chips;
· Implemented asynchronous processing for KVM page faults;
· Forced Threaded Interrupt Handlers;
· The Multiple Page-IO Submissions option is used by default for EXT4 filesystems to improve scalability and performance;
· Added Batched Discard functionality to the Btrfs filesystem, for SDD unused storage areas information;
· New Pstore (platform-persistent storage) filesystem;
· Extended LIO target implementation, for SPC-4 SCSI emulations;
· Support for Intel’s “Panther Point” chipsets;
· Improved SCSI Logical Block Provisioning interfaces;
· Support for USB 3.0 hubs;
· Terratec DMX 6Fire USB driver;
· Griffin FireWave surround sound system driver;
· Technisat USB 2.0 DVB-S/S2 receiver driver;
· Divio webcam driver;
· SABI driver;
· WMI driver for recent ASUS netbooks.
These are just a few of the new features available in Linux kernel 2.6.39. For a complete list of all the newly supported devices, newly added drivers, etc., please visit the official changelog.
