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Contents 1 Hardware support 1.1 Suspending 1.2 PATA/SATA 1.3 Network 1.4 Sound 1.5 New SCSI drivers 1.6 New USB drivers 1.7 Video 2 Filesystems 2.1 FAT 2.2 CIFS 2.3 EXT4 2.4 XFS 2.5 RAID 3 Core 3.1 CFQ scheduler

Hardware support

Suspending

• implement Power Management support in ahci (commit)
• backport suspend fixes from Alan Cox in libata, pata_ali, pata_amd, pata_cmd64x, pata_cs5530, pata_cs5530, pata_hpt3x3, pata_it821x, pata_pdc202xx_old, pata_serverworks, pata_sil680, pata_sil680, pata_sis & pata_via drivers
• add basic infrastructure in usbcore for autosuspend/autoresume (commit),
• a suspend callback for i965 (commit);
• add support of aggressive AC97 power-saving mode (CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE) - it can be turned on/off on the fly via sysfs
• add suspend/resume support in sata_nv from Robert Hancock

PATA/SATA

• add SATA support for vt8237a in sata_via (commit),
• add Compactflash support (commit),
• A non-libata driver for Jmicron devices (commit),
• update 3w-9xxx driver to support 3ware 9650 controller (update is in kernel 2.6.19).

Network

Please see Development/Ideas/Mandriva 2007.1/Kernel/Network

Sound

• update ALSA to 1.0.13 or 1.0.14 (tons of bug fixes and support for quite a number of cards and laptops)
• Add support for VIA VT1708(A) HD audio codec (changeset: 4741:bc7ef767d0cfcc32cb05a0abfa96aa4fd80347b2)
• HDA MSI support (commit);
• add model entry for Samsung X10 laptop (commit)
• for Clevo m665n laptop (commit)
• support sigmatel 9205 family (commit)
• add model for ASUS M2NPV-VM mobo (commit)
• add support of Benq laptop with ALC262 (commit)
• add support for Sony Vaio AR 11B (commit)
• add hp-bpc model type for HP laptops (commit)
• add model for Uniwill laptop with ALC861 (commit)
• add support for LG LW25 laptop (commit)
• support for Sigmatel 9872 (commit)
• add 5 stack audio support for Intel 965 systems (commit)
• new pci id for Nvidia MCP61 (commit)
• add a model entry for ASUS U5F laptop with AD1986A codec (commit)
• add ATI RS690 HDMI audio support (commit)
• Add snd-mts64 driver for ESI Miditerminal 4140 (commit)
• Add experimental support of aggressive AC97 power-saving mode (commit)

New SCSI drivers

• Aic94xx SCSI driver driver (commit)
• arcmsr SCSI driver for the Areca Raid controller (commit)
• Promise Supertrak SCSI driver, supporting Supertrak EX8350/8300/16350/16300 controllers (commit)
• qla4xxx, an open-iSCSI driver for Qlogic Corporation's iSCSI HBAs (commit)

New USB drivers

• Add Playstation 2 Trance Vibrator driver (commit),
• add driver for the Phidgets Inc Motorcontrol (commit),
• add AIRcable USB Bluetooth Dongle Driver (commit),
• add Moschip 7840 USB-Serial Driver (commit),
• new gmidi, a MIDI Gadget class driver - glue between the USB gadget interface and the ALSA MIDI interface (commit),
• add TIOCGSERIAL and TIOCSSERIAL ioctl calls to ark3116 (commit),
• add AX88178 support to asix (commit),
• add support for many devices in the usbtouchscreen driver (commit),
• add ADU support for Ontrak ADU devices (commit),
• add rio karma eject support (commit),
• client driver for ELAN Uxxx adapters in ftdi-elan (commit),
• add serial mos7720 driver (commit)
• add uvcvideo used for logitech quickam pro 5000 and several laptop webcams (like in HP dv6000) website - svn

Video

• fix sound with bttv (fixed in 2.6.18-rc4) Bug #24794)
• include spca driver, a.k.a. merge in dkms-spca ( Bug #17977)
• Add a simple DRM memory manager from Tungsten Graphics. This is NOT the new memory manager, this is a replacement for the SIS and VIA memory managers (commit), (commit)
• Add support for the SiS 315 to the DRM (commit),
• for Intel i965G chipsets (commit),
• allow detection of new VIA chipsets (commit),
• add support to Intel 965 Express (commit),
• fbdev: Add generic ddc read functionality (commit) and port drivers to use it: nvidiafb (commit), savagefb (commit), i810fb (commit), radeonfb (commit), rivafb (commit)
• and vsync interrupt and i2c support for intelfb (commit 1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13);
• update all DRM modules from current Mesa CVS (most of them are very old), or split them in a standalone kernel package/subpackage.

Filesystems

FAT

• backport flush option to make writing on removable devices safer (commit)

CIFS

• Legacy time handling for Win9x and OS/2 (commit);
• support deep tree mounts (e.g. mounts to //server/share/path) (commit)

EXT4

• add support for ext4 experimental

XFS

• backport (possible without risk breaking?) fixes for XFS problems under heavy load [1]

RAID

• use the round-robin/read balancing patch for RAID 1 reading ([2] or [3])

Core

• backport MSI fixes (e.g.: quite a lot of snd-hda users have no sound on non-Intel motherboards)
• drop supermount

CFQ scheduler

• backport CFQ fixes from 2.6.18 (commit)
• maybe make CFQ the default scheduler