Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Kernel Enablement Kit 3.18.2 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the release of the Black Lab Kernel Enablement Kit 3.18.2.  With this release we include the following:

Kernel Kit script
Release Notes + readme


System compatibility
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Black Lab Linux 5.x/6.x
Black Lab Pro Desktop 6.x
Black Lab Education Desktop 5.x/6.x
Ubuntu 12.x/14.x
Linux Mint 17.x

You can download the kit from our Sourceforge Page

Kernel Enablement Kit 3.18.2

PLEASE VIEW THE ENCLOSED README FOR INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

Whats new in this release:

Highlights include

DRM Graphics:
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- Re-clocking improvements for AMD's Radeon driver.

- Radeon R600 UVD hardware-accelerated video decoding support for old ATI/AMD GPUs of the Radeon HD 3000 series.

- Radeon Userptr support.

- Numerous Intel graphics enhancements across the board.

- Nouveau DisplayPort audio, other re-clocking work, and various other enhancements for this open-source NVIDIA driver.

- Other DRM improvements.

Linux Hardware:
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- Many new media drivers.

- New support for ARM SoCs on Linux.

- AMD Carrizo thermal monitoring.

- Razer Sabertooth support and other input device improvements.

- Wacom tablet enhancements.

- ACPI and power management improvements.

- PCI support on 64-bit ARM (ARM64/AArch64).

- Faster suspend and resume on large servers / many CPU cores.

File-Systems:
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- Btrfs improvements with recovery and repair in RAID configurations being notable.

- F2FS additions like FITRIM support, atomic/volatile writes, and much more.

- Many minor XFS improvements.

- Cleaning and bug fixing happened for EXT4.

- The mailbox framework has finally been mainlined.

Etc:
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- Xen PVSCSI support.

- Firmware core-dumps to user-space via sysfs for allowing better debugging of GPU/WiFi microcode issues and other complex firmware problems.

- USB improvements.

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