2.6.33: getting closer

Almost every day I am going to kernel.org to see the progress. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of 2.6.33!

rc8 has arrived, and Linus thinks this might be the last one before the final:

http://lwn.net/Articles/374196/

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Comments

..waiting


Nouveau
Username: BarryK
"kirk, Yes, mostly the nouveau support that I want to evaluate.

Compiling 2.6.33-rc8
Username: BarryK
"Heh heh, can't wait, I'm compiling 2.6.33-rc8 right now. To enable the nouveau driver, you have to go into Device drivers -> Staging drivers. I found some extra wireless drivers in there, including one for the rt8192su, which should work on the USB wireless adapter supplied by Norhtec. ...that's interesting. Now, if I can solve the power-off problem in the Gecko... Oh yeah, one other thing, there is a new RDC PATA driver, which I enabled. So, it's going to be very interesting trying this out on the Gecko.

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