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.