What's new in Linux 2.6.32
Nearly three months after the release of Linux kernel 2.6.31, Linus Torvalds has now put the lid on Linux 2.6.32 development. Like its predecessors in the main development tree, the new version includes a plethora of new features. The close collaboration between AMD's graphics chip department and the open source community has borne further fruit, with Linux 2.6.32 now enabling 3D support and kernel-based mode setting (KMS) on the widely-used Radeon 2000, 3000 and 4000 series graphics cards.
Also new in Linux 2.6.32 is KSM, which merges identical memory pages from different userland processes to reduce memory usage in virtualised environments and make more efficient use of hardware. Devtmpfs should mean that the Linux kernel boots faster and no longer requires udev, while new make targets will allow testers to easily generate kernel configurations adapted to their systems.
