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| * Remove FTape driver * Sensors * Add support for Apple Motion Sensors * Support for National Semiconductor PC87427 Super-I/O chip * Support for Winbond W83793 sensors |
Short overview (for news sites, etc)
Linux 2.6.20 greatly improves kdump (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285165,00.htm ); KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) for Intel with VT and AMD with SVM hardware virtualization.
Important things (AKA: ''the cool stuff'')
Other stuff
Arch-independent changes in the kernel core
Architecture-specific changes
- ARM
- Support to change MX1 CPU frequency at runtime.
- i386
- Add support for a relocatable kernel. This is useful for kexec panics and another kernel being loaded.
- PowerPC
- Add support for EFIKA boards
- Add support for the Sony Playstation 3
Filesystems
- DebugFS: inotify support
Networking
CPU Freq
- Add support for CN400 when ACPI C3 isn't available.
Drivers and other subsystems
- pata: add support for Winbond, Marvel, and others
- Add support for Moxa SmartIO multiport serial cards
- optimize o_direct on block devices
- HWMon: New Winbond W83793 hardware monitoring driver
[http://lwn.net/Articles/203596/ Add support for Log2 mechanism]
- Remove FTape driver
- Sensors
- Add support for Apple Motion Sensors
- Support for National Semiconductor PC87427 Super-I/O chip
- Support for Winbond W83793 sensors