Rilasciato ieri il kernel linux 2.6.33, con il suo carico di “novità” e qualche sorpresa… in particolare

· Nouveau open source Nvidia video driver;
· DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device);
· Better Perf: perk kmem, perf probe, perf bench, perf perl, perf diff filters and scripts;
· Added recvmmsg(), a syscall to batch recvmsg() calls;
· TCP Cookie Transactions;
· Xen PV-on-HVM guests support;
· Swappable KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging) pages;
· Block IO controller;
· Compcache;
· Graphic improvements;
· Support for Gamecube and Nintendo Wii;
· Drivers for VMware;
· Reiserfs de-BKLification.

Sorprende che tra le varie aggiunte vi sia un assente illustre, ovvero la rimozione del supporto Android (ancora non ne sono chiari i motivi), presente sino al 2.6.32.9.

Sono stati aggiunti i seguenti supporti hardware:

Sound:

· Support for Ashai Kasei ak4113;
· Support for Infrasonic Quartet;
· Added SuperH DAC audio driver;
· Support for SPEA Media FX/Reveal SC-600;
· Support for Roland UA-1G;
· Support for ALC892/888VD and ALC661/259;
· Support for 27″ iMacs;
· Support for Raumfeld audio;
· Support for OMAP3517 / AM3517 EVM;
· Support for WM8727 DAC;
· Added ADS117x ADC driver;
· Added TPA6130A2 amplifier driver.

USB:

· Multifunction Composite Gadgets support;
· Added OMAP ehci-hcd driver;
· Device ID support for Apple Cinema Display 23″;
· Xilinx USB host controller support.

Input:

· Davinci Keypad Driver;
· Altera PS/2 controller driver;
· Dynapro serial touchscreen driver;
· mc13783 touchscreen driver;
· S3C24XX touchscreen driver;
· ADP5520 MFD PMICs driver;
· ET&T TC5UH touchscreen controller support;
· Zytronic capacitive touchscreen support;
· Support for new Wacom LCD tablets.

HWMON:

· AMD Family 10h/11h CPUs driver;
· National Semiconductor LM73 driver;
· VIA CPU core temperature driver;
· Freescale MC13783 ADC driver.

Graphics:

· Improved the i915 Intel video driver;
· Improved the Radeon video driver;
· Blackfin Landscape LCD EZ-Extender driver;
· Improved OMAP.

V4L/DVB:

· Omnivision OV9640 sensor driver;
· E3C EC100 DVB-T demodulator driver;
· E3C EC168 DVB USB driver;
· Sharp RJ54N1CB0C camera sensor driver;
· Asus Europa Hybrid DVB-T card support;
· OV3610 and OV2610 sensors support;
· TEF6862 tuner support;
· Leadtek DTV1000S support;
· MSI Starcam 370i webcams support;
· Added Digital TV support for Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1290;
· Sveon STV20 Tuner USB DVB-T HDTV support;
· Maxium MAX2165 silicon tuner support;
· Altobeam ATBM8830 GB20600-2006(DMB-TH) demodulator support;
· Mygica X8558pro DMB-TH support;
· Support for Mygica D689 DMB-TH USB;
· Prof 7301 PCI DVB-S2 card support;
· em2800 VC211A card support;
· Dib0090 tuner driver.

Network:

· Intel Wireless Multicom 3200 driver;
· Octeon MGMT device ETH driver;
· Intel Wifi/WiMAX Link 6050 support.

Informatzioni tratte da: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-2-6-33-No-Longer-Supports-Android-135930.shtml