Linux 2.6.34 Released

Wednesday, 19. May 2010

Kernel 2.6.34 was released Monday! Here’s an overview of some of the changes from the changelog.

  • Improvements for ARM, MIPS, Microblaze, powerpc, x86, amd, k8, x86_64, m68k, sparc64, and more
  • Lots of Virtualization and Virtualization-related fixups
  • Additional ALSA hardware support
  • Synaptics, HID fixes
  • Ceph added to kernel
  • Fixes for OCFS2, CIFS, Coda,XFS,  NFS3/4, btfrs, squashfs, reiserfs, ext2/3/4  and others
  • i915, radeon graphics driver fixes
  • MMC improvements
  • SCSI, Firewire, Infiniband  &  PCMCIA bugfixes
  • Support for various Realtek USB wireless variants
  • Addressing recent Database performance regressions (Yay!)
  • Merge of many branches, including a big V4L merge
  • Fixes for many recent regressions
  • Improvement to wireless stack
  • Fixes for e1000, rtl8169,tg3, iwlwifi, forcedeth, tun, ath9k, ath5k, b43, bonding, bridge,  and other network drivers
  • Manufacturer and device IDs have been added to many drivers (more hardware support!)
  • Fixes for MD, Raid
  • ACPI, PM, & Suspend improvements
  • Network stack bugfixes across the board
  • i2c, hwmon fixes
  • More and better support for input devices
  • Documentation updates
  • Much needed attention to Staging drivers
  • Many USB improvements and device additions

Additionally, the release addresses many more obscure, unintelligible and uncommon bus that I didn’t mention. I only tried to overview some changes that are likely to affect the masses.  The changelog for this release is 6.4 MB, so you’ll have to forgive me if I missed anything noteworthy.

It’s too early to say, but so far, this kernel seems to be doing better than ever.  My ath9k chip appears happier than ever before, and maybe it’s just my imagination, but it seems as if the recent increase in suspend time has been addressed.  Suspend has always been a little unstable on my netbook, so I’ll have to wait and see if thing seem to do better now.

All in all, 2.6.34 looks like, and feels like,  a good step forward.  Why not try it today?

Posted in Uncategorized by Dan Farrell

3 Responses to “Linux 2.6.34 Released”

  1. June 3rd, 2010 at 6:34 am

    Stephen Says:

    Ceph does look cool. We might consider using that across the VPN if we have bandwidth to kill.

  2. June 21st, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Dan Farrell Says:

    The little scroll pad is just the right side of the mouse pad, so you can use the same tool to configure it. Typically it’s already configured but as long as you’re using a synaptics mouse, you should be able to use synclient to set it up to do whatever you like.

  3. June 21st, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Dan Farrell Says:

    Ceph is not production ready. I looked into it, since I’m always on the lookout for good distribution/replication systems, but unfortunately it’s missing a bunch of features that are more or less critical to any real world usage.

    Nope, for real world scenarios, I think gluster is still probably the best – and nearly the only – choice.

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