Linux 2.6.39 not released yet.
Summary: This release adds support for page-flipping and z-compression for the Nouveau device driver.
1. Prominent features (the cool stuff)
- ARM updates
- Further VFS clean-up
- New block device plugging model
1.1. DRM
Remove BigKernelLock (BKL)
- Support for USB DRM drivers
- TTM support in Xen Dom0
- Nouveau page-flipping
- Nouveau z-compression
- AMD Radeon Cayman GPU support
- Tiling support for AMD R600+ ASIC
- Intel GMA 500 Poulsbo driver
2. Drivers and architectures
3. Core
4. CPU scheduler
5. Block
6. Crypto
7. File systems
8. Memory management
9. Networking
10. Security
11. Tracing/perf