Feature changed by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Feature #312627, revision 4 Title: opensuse 12.1 to use kernel 3.1 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would like consideration to be given to the likely release of kernel 3.1 around the 19th of October, less than a week after RC1 opensuse 12.1 gets published. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY2MA kernel 3.1 will bring a few noteworthy advantages - solution for kernel power regressions: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTYwMQ possibility of support for Intels Cedar Trail platform: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTYyNw better KVM virtualisation support: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTU3NQ better Nouveau DRM support for fermi: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTYzNQ Discussion: #1: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) (2011-07-13 12:36:20) 49 GMA500 patches published and due to be included in 3.1: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY2Mg + #2: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) (2011-07-16 22:18:13) + I tried booting with nouveau on my new GeForce GTX 560 TI System + recently and had it freeze hard. Only removing nouveau made it "usable" + again. + So if Linux 3.1 contains improvements for nouveau this might be very + important to keep in mind! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312627