Feature changed by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) Feature #312627, revision 5 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! + #3: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2011-07-17 12:39:10) + Seriously citing phoronix about future speculations? I could give you + tons of phoronix articles going untrue ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312627