-What's new in the Linux kernel - DebConf 2013
+What's new in the Linux kernel - DebConf 2014
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What's new in the Linux kernel
+
and what's missing in Debian
Ben Hutchings
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Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
-
-
- Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
- and PCI code as necessary
-
-
- Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
- maintenance aside from ports
-
-
- Maintaining Linux 3.2.y stable update series on
- kernel.org
-
-
+
+
+ Working on various drivers and kernel code in my day job
+
+
+ Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
+ maintenance aside from ports
+
+
+ Maintaining Linux 3.2.y stable update series on
+ kernel.org
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Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
every week or two)
+
+
+ ...though some features aren't ready to use when they firat
+ appear in a release
+
+
- For 'wheezy' we chose to freeze with Linux 3.2, which was
- getting pretty old by the time of release
+ Since my talk last year, Linus has made 6 releases (3.11-3.16)
Good news: we have lots of new kernel features in testing/unstable
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needs new tools - teamd, teamnl, etc.
- Want to make it work? See
+ Make it work: see
https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/
- and mail debian-kernel
+ and send proposal to debian-kernel
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are disabled for now
- Want to make it work? Join the X Strike Force and package the
- new X drivers
+ Make it work: join the X Strike Force and package the new X
+ drivers
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restrictions when booted in this mode
- Want to make Secure Boot work? Come to the meeting on Tuesday
+ Make Secure Boot work: come to the meeting on Tuesday
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Must be explicitly enabled, but d-i doesn't do this by default