• Linux_3.9_DriverArch

1. Architectures

1.1. x86

• Support loading bzImage, boot_params and ramdisk above 4G (commit)

• Early microcode loading support (commit)

• Remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag (commit)

• Remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param (commit)

• ACPI, mm: Revert movablemem_map support (commit)

• AMD, NB: Add multi-domain support (commit)

• AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors (commit)

• x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user() (commit)

• Add Crash kernel low reservation (commit)

• Add TS-5500 platform support (commit)

• ACPI / PM: Expose current status of ACPI power resources (commit)

• ACPI / PM: Expose lists of device power resources to user space (commit)

• ACPI / PM: Expose power states of ACPI devices to user space (commit)

• ACPI: add support for CSRT table (commit)

• EDAC, MCE, AMD: Add MCE decoding support for Family 16h (commit)

• cpufreq/x86: Add P-state driver for sandy bridge. (commit)

• acer-wmi: support Lenovo ideapad S205 10382JG wifi switch (commit)

• acer-wmi: support Lenovo ideapad S205 1038DPG wifi switch (commit)

• asus-laptop: add all video switch keys (commit)

• asus-nb-wmi: add all video switch keys (commit)

• msi-laptop: Add MSI Wind U90/U100 support (commit)

• msi-wmi: Add MSI Wind support (commit)

• hp-wmi: Add support for SMBus hotkeys (commit)

• intel_idle: support Haswell (commit)

1.2. ARM

• tegra: Add Tegra30 Beaver board support (commit)

  • Dummy Virtual Machine platform support (commit)

• OMAP2+: Enable ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM support (commit)

• OMAP2+: Remove apollon board support (commit)

• OMAP2: AM33XX: id: Add support for AM335x PG2.0 (commit)

• at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board (commit)

• Add apf51 basic support (commit)

• add dtsi for imx6q and imx6dl (commit)

• imx: Remove mach-mx51_3ds board (commit)

• imx: Remove mx508 support (commit)

• psci: add support for PSCI invocations from the kernel (commit)

• highbank: add support for pl320 IPC (commit)

• sunxi: Add pinctrl driver for Allwinner SoCs (commit)

• cpufreq: add imx6q-cpufreq driver (commit)

• cpufreq: kirkwood: Add a cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs (commit)

1.3. S390

• KVM Add support for channel I/O instructions. (commit)

• KVM: Add support for machine checks. (commit)

• KVM: Base infrastructure for enabling capabilities. (commit)

• KVM: Support for I/O interrupts. (commit)

1.4. PowerPC

• 44x: Support OCM(On Chip Memory) for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board (commit)

• 85xx: Board support for ppa8548 (commit)

• Add a powerpc implementation of SHA-1 (commit)

• Hook in new transactional memory code (commit)

• Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features (commit)

• kgdb/kgdbts: support ppc64 (commit)

1.5. MIPS

• Add support for the M14KEc core. (commit)

• Octeon: Adding driver to measure interrupt latency on Octeon. (commit)

• PNX8550: Remove support for SOC and JBS and STB810 boards. (commit)

• ralink: adds Kbuild files (commit)

1.6. xtensa

• Add support for Diamond 233L - Rev C processor variant (commit)

• Add support for TLS (commit)

• Add support for oprofile (commit)

2. Drivers

2.1. Staging drivers

• staging: comedi: introduce addi_watchdog driver (commit)

• staging:iio: Move adis16400 out of staging (commit)

• staging:iio: Move adxrs450 driver out of staging (commit)

2.2. Graphics

• drm/i2c: nxp-tda998x (v3) (commit)

• drm/nouveau/therm: implement automatic fan management (commit)

• drm/nouveau/therm: implement support for temperature alarms (commit)

• drm/nva3/therm: add support for hardware fan tachometer (commit)

• drm/nvd0/therm: add support for hardware fan tachometer (commit)

• drm/omap: Add OMAP5 support (commit)

• drm/radeon: Deprecate UMS support v2 (commit)

• drm/radeon: add Oland pci ids (commit)

• drm/tilcdc: add TI LCD Controller DRM driver (v4) (commit)

• video: mmp display controller support (commit)

• video: mmp display subsystem (commit)

• video: mmp: add tpo hvga panel supported (commit)

• fb: backlight: add the Himax HX-8357B LCD controller (commit)

• gpu: remove gma500 stub driver (commit)

• Staging: zcache: delete it (commit)

2.3. Storage

• ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs (commit)

• ahci: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH (commit)

• AHCI: Support multiple MSIs (commit)

• ata_piix: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH (commit)

• ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs (commit)

• Add R-Car SATA driver (commit)

• export host controller number thru /sys (commit)

• Add new fcoe control interface (commit)

• SCSI

  • mpt2sas: Add support for OEM-specific controller (commit)

  • qla2xxx: Enable target mode support for ISP83xx. (commit)

2.4. Networking

• bnx2x: Add VF device ids and enable feature (commit)

• bnx2x: Added FW GRO bridging support (commit)

• bnx2x: Added nvram personalities support (commit)

• bnx2x: add `ethtool -w' support. (commit)

• brcmfmac: Add tx p2p off-channel support. (commit)

• brcmfmac: add peer-to-peer group discovery support (commit)

• brcmfmac: add support for P2P listen mode. (commit)

• brcmfmac: add support for creating P2P client/GO interface (commit)

• brcmfmac: implement support for deleting virtual interfaces (commit)

• brcmsmac: allow user-space setting of interface address (commit)

• iwlwifi: add 7000 series device configuration (commit)

• iwlwifi: add NVM and PHY DB code for new MVM driver (commit)

• ixgbe: implement SFF diagnostic monitoring via ethtool (commit)

• Add support for NTB virtual ethernet device (commit)

• phy: realtek: add rtl8211e driver (commit)

• rt2x00: rt2800pci add id (commit)

• rt2x00: rt2800usb add "unknown" devices (commit)

• rt2x00: rt2800usb add Sweex ids (commit)

• rt2x00: rt2800usb add/identify ids (commit)

• ath9k: add spectral scan feature (commit)

• ath9k_hw: Add TempCompensation feature for AR9550 (commit)

• bgmac: driver for GBit MAC core on BCMA bus (commit)

• igb: Add i2c interface to igb. (commit)

• igb: Enable SR-IOV configuration via PCI sysfs interface (commit)

• igb: Enable hwmon data output for thermal sensors via I2C. (commit)

• mwifiex: add 802.11AC support (commit)

• mwifiex: add PCIe8897 support (commit)

• mwl8k: Enable support to support additional ampdu streams (commit)

• mwl8k: add single band 88W8366 PCI device IDs (commit)

• p54usb: corrected USB ID for T-Com Sinus 154 data II (commit)

• fec: add napi support to improve proformance (commit)

• qeth: Support VEPA mode (commit)

• qlcnic: 83xx base driver (commit)

• rt2x00: allow AP and mesh mode to operate simultaneously (commit)

• rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new USB ID (commit)

• veth: extend device features (commit)

• tg3: Add 57766 device support. (commit)

• tg3: Add support for new 5762 ASIC (commit)

• tg3: add support for Ethernet core in bcm4785 (commit)

• add support for IEEE-1588 PTP (commit)

• add support for hardware timestamping on some devices (commit)

• ethernet: cpsw: dual emac interface implementation (commit)

• delete 8390 based EISA drivers. (commit)

• delete Digital EtherWorks-3 support. (commit)

• delete ISA intel eexpress and eepro i825xx drivers (commit)

• delete Racal Interlan ISA ni52 (i825xx) driver (commit)

• delete at1700 ISA 10Mbit driver (commit)

• delete intel 486 panther onboard ethernet support (commit)

• delete intel i825xx based znet notebook driver (commit)

• delete old 8 bit ISA Racal ni5010 support. (commit)

• delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver. (commit)

• delete old DEC depca ISA drivers support. (commit)

• delete old fujitsu based eth16i driver (commit)

• delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers (commit)

• delete old x86 variant of the seeq8005 driver (commit)

• delete orphaned MCA ibmlana driver content (commit)

• delete the 3Com 3c505/3c507 intel i825xx support (commit)

• delete the really obsolete 8390 based 10Mbit ISA drivers (commit)

2.5. Sound

• HDA: New PCI ID for Intel Haswell ULT (commit)

• hda - Add Loopback Mixing control (commit)

• hda - Add new DSP loader callback routines (commit)

• hda - add support for IDT 92HD95 HDA codec (commit)

• hda/sigmatel - Add bass speaker support for HP Envy Spectre XT (commit)

• hda_intel: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH (commit)

• usb-audio: add support for M-Audio FT C600 (commit)

• ASoC

  • OMAP: Remove obsolete machine drivers for Zoom2 and SDP3430 (commit)

  • Replace max98090 device driver (commit)

  • Replace max98090 device driver (commit)

  • codecs: Add Dialog da7213 codec (commit)

  • tegra: add AC'97 host driver (commit)

2.6. USB

• Add runtime pm support for usb port device (commit)

• Add usb port auto power off mechanism (commit)

• Enable usb port device's async suspend. (commit)

• Expose usb port's pm qos flags to user space (commit)

• phy: add a new driver for usb part of control module (commit)

• phy: add a new driver for usb3 phy (commit)

• phy: samsung: Add host phy support to samsung-phy driver (commit)

• HID: SRW-S1 gaming wheel driver (commit)

• HID: Steelseries SRW-S1 Add support controlling all LEDs simultaneously (commit)

• misc: Add USB3503 high-speed hub controller (commit)

• option: add Huawei "ACM" devices using protocol = vendor (commit)

• option: add Yota / Megafon M100-1 4g modem (commit)

• option: add and update Alcatel modems (commit)

2.7. Bluetooth

2.8. Input

• ALPS - add support for "Rushmore" touchpads (commit)

• Add driver for Cypress APA I2C trackpad (commit)

• Add support for Cypress PS/2 trackpads (commit)

• cyapa - add support for SMBus protocol (commit)

• goldfish - virtual input event driver (commit)

• qt2160 - add support for LEDs (commit)

• wacom - add support for DTH-2242 (commit)

• HID

  • LG: Add support for Logitech Momo Force (Red) Wheel (commit)

  • Support Jess/Saitek Color Rumble Pad (commit)

  • Add ThingM blink(1) USB RGB LED support (commit)

  • Add support for Sony RF receiver with USB product id 0x0374 (commit)

  • blacklist Velleman data acquisition boards (commit)

  • i2c-hid: add ACPI support (commit)

  • multitouch: add support for Nexio 42" panel (commit)

2.9. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers

• Added support for AVerTV Hybrid Express Slim HC81R (commit)

• Support Digivox Mini HD (rtl2832) (commit)

• TeVii DVB-S s421 and s632 cards support (commit)

• TeVii DVB-S s421 and s632 cards support, rs2000 part (commit)

• V4L: Add driver for OV9650/52 image sensors (commit)

• af9033: add support for Fitipower FC0012 tuner (commit)

• af9035: support for Fitipower FC0012 tuner devices (commit)

• au0828: update model matrix entries for 72261, 72271 & 72281 (commit)

• cx231xx : Add support for Elgato Video Capture V2 (commit)

• cx23885: add RC support for MyGica X8507 (commit)

• davinci: vpfe: add v4l2 capture driver with media interface (commit)

• davinci: vpfe: dm365: add build infrastructure for capture driver (commit)

• em28xx: add USB id for Terratec h5 rev. 3 (commit)

• gspca_kinect: add Kinect for Windows USB id (commit)

• it913x: add support for Avermedia A835B (commit)

• m920x: add support for the VP-7049 Twinhan DVB-T USB Stick (commit)

• add a VEU MEM2MEM format conversion and scaling driver (commit)

• add driver for Masterkit MA901 USB radio (commit)

• ov7670: add support for ov7675 (commit)

• rtl28xxu: Add USB IDs for Compro VideoMate U620F (commit)

• rtl28xxu: [1b80:d3a8] ASUS My Cinema-U3100Mini Plus V2 (commit)

• rtl28xxu: add Gigabyte U7300 DVB-T Dongle (commit)

• saa7134: Add capture card Hawell HW-9004V1 (commit)

• ts2020: add ts2020 tuner driver (commit)

• v4l2: blackfin: add EPPI3 support (commit)

2.10. Hardware monitoring

• (it87) Add support for IT8771E and IT8772E (commit)

• (pmbus/max34440) Add support for MAX34460 and MAX34461 (commit)

• (pmbus/zl6100) Add support for VMON/VDRV (commit)

• Driver for Maxim MAX6697 and compatibles (commit)

• Driver for Texas Instruments INA209 (commit)

2.11. I2C

• i2c-designware: add support for Intel Lynxpoint (commit)

• add bcm2835 driver (commit)

• i801: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH (commit)

• i801: SMBus patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs (commit)

• sis630: Add SIS964 support (commit)

• tegra: add support for Tegra114 SoC (commit)

2.12. Near-field communication (NFC)

• Add support for SO_TIMESTAMP LLCP socket option (commit)

• Initial support for Inside Secure microread (commit)

• microread: Add MEI physical layer (commit)

• microread: Add i2c physical layer (commit)

2.13. Various

• rtc: add RTC driver for TPS80031/TPS80032 (commit)

• rtc: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time (commit)

• rtc: add support for spi rtc rx4581 (commit)

• rtc: max8997: add driver for max8997 rtc (commit)

• TPM: STMicroelectronics ST33 I2C KERNEL 3.x (commit)

• backlight: add an AS3711 PMIC backlight driver (commit)

• backlight: add lms501kf03 LCD driver (commit)

• backlight: add new lp8788 backlight driver (commit)

• backlight: lp855x_bl: support new LP8557 device (commit)

• IBM RamSan 70/80 device driver (commit)

• delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware (commit)

• w1: add support for DS2413 Dual Channel Addressable Switch (commit)

• watchdog: add new driver for STMP3xxx and i.MX23/28 (commit)

• watchdog: introduce retu_wdt driver (commit)

• gpio/lynxpoint: add chipset gpio driver. (commit)

• gpio: delete AB8500 driver (commit)

• gpio: palmas: Add support for Palmas GPIO (commit)

• gpio: pca953x: add support for pca9505 (commit)

• iio: gyro: Add itg3200 (commit)

• iio: mxs: Add MX23 support into the IIO driver (commit)

• iio:adis16400: Add support for the adis16448 (commit)

• iio:gyro: Add STMicroelectronics gyroscopes driver (commit)

• iio:light:tsl2563 move out of staging (commit)

• iio:magnetometer: Add STMicroelectronics magnetometers driver (commit)

• mtip32xx: Add workqueue and NUMA support (commit)

• mtip32xx: add trim support (commit)

• mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Support Persistent Protection Bits (PPB) locking (commit)

• mtd: chips: Add support for GigaDevice GD25Q32/GD25Q64 SPI Flash in m25p80.c (commit)

• mmc: add BCM2835 driver (commit)

• mmc: sh_mmcif: Add support for eMMC Dual Data Rate (commit)

• leds-lp55xx: support firmware interface (commit)

• mfd: lpc_ich: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH (commit)

• mfd: rtsx: Support RTS5227 (commit)

• misc: Add Lattice ECP3 FPGA configuration via SPI (commit)

• pinctrl/abx500: add AB8500 sub-driver (commit)

• pinctrl/abx500: add AB8505 sub-driver (commit)

• pinctrl/abx500: add AB8540 sub-driver (commit)

• pinctrl/abx500: add AB9540 sub-driver (commit)

• pinctrl: add abx500 pinctrl driver core (commit)

• pinctrl: tegra114: add pinctrl driver for NVIDIA's Tegra114 SoC (commit)

• regmap: Add asynchronous I/O support (commit)

• regmap: Add support for 24 bit wide register addresses (commit)

• regmap: spi: Support asynchronous I/O for SPI (commit)

• regulator: lp8755: new driver for LP8755 (commit)

• pm2301: Enable vbat low monitoring (commit)

• pm2301: LPN mode control support (commit)

• pm2301: Provide u9540 support for the pm2301 charger (commit)

• serial/8250: Add suport for later SUNIX (TIMEDIA) boards. (commit)

• serial: Remove RM9000 series serial driver. (commit)

• serial: mcf: Add support RS485 in ColdFire serial driver (commit)

• serial: ralink: adds support for the serial core found on ralink wisoc (commit)

• serial: sirf: add support for new SiRFmarco SMP SoC (commit)

• serial: tegra: add serial driver (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7203 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7264 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7269 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh73a0 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7720 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7722 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7723 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7724 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7734 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7757 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7785 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add sh7786 pinmux support (commit)

• sh-pfc: Add shx3 pinmux support (commit)

• spi/pxa2xx: add support for DMA engine (commit)

• spi/pxa2xx: add support for Intel Low Power Subsystem SPI (commit)

• spi/pxa2xx: add support for Lynxpoint SPI controllers (commit)

• spi/pxa2xx: add support for SPI_LOOP (commit)

• spi/pxa2xx: add support for runtime PM (commit)

• ssb: add place for serial flash driver (commit)

• irqchip: add basic infrastructure (commit)

• clk: tegra: add clock support for Tegra20 (commit)

• clk: tegra: add clock support for Tegra30 (commit)

• dma: tegra: add support for Tegra114 SoC (commit)

• edac: add support for error type "Info" (commit)

• edac: add support for raw error reports (commit)

• extcon: max77693: Add support Dock-Smart device for desktop mode (commit)

• iommu/shmobile: Add iommu driver for Renesas IPMMU modules (commit)

• thermal: Add support for the thermal sensor on Kirkwood SoCs (commit)

• tty: metag_da: Add metag DA TTY driver (commit)

• vfio-pci: Add support for VGA region access (commit)

• Thermal: Dove: Add Themal sensor support for Dove. (commit)

• Thermal: exynos: Add support for temperature falling interrupt. (commit)

• Thermal: exynos: Add sysfs node supporting exynos's emulation mode. (commit)