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43 <h2>What's new in the Linux kernel</h2>
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51 <h1>What's new in the Linux kernel</h1>
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53 <h2>and what's missing in Debian</h2>
54 <h3>Ben Hutchings</h3>
58 <h1>Ben Hutchings</h1>
61 Professional software engineer by day, Debian developer by night
64 Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
67 Working on various drivers and kernel code in my day job
70 Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
71 maintenance aside from ports
74 Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
81 <h1>Linux releases early and often</h1>
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84 Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
88 ...though some features aren't ready to use when they firat
94 Since my talk last year, Linus has made 6 releases (3.11-3.16)
97 Good news: we have lots of new kernel features in testing/unstable
100 Bad news: some of them won't really work without new userland
106 <h1>Recap of last year's features (1)</h1>
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109 Team device driver: userland package (libteam) was uploaded in
113 Transcendent memory: frontswap, zswap and Xen tmem will be
114 enabled in next kernel upload
117 New KMS drivers: should all work with current Xorg drivers
120 Module signing: still not enabled, but probably will be if we
127 <h1>Recap of last year's features (2)</h1>
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130 More support for discard: still not enabled at install time
131 (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/690977">#690977</a>)
134 More support for containers: XFS was fixed, and user namespaces
138 bcache: userland package (bcache-tools) still not quite ready
139 (<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/708132">#708132</a>)
142 ARMv7 multiplatform: d-i works on <em>some</em> platforms but
143 I'm still not sure which. Some progress on GPU drivers, but not
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