Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Has USB 3.0 Support

Sep 10, 2009 Linux

The new Linux Kernel 2.6.31 has been released. It’s a good news that I am waiting for this release because I’ve some issues with my built-in ATI video card driver on Ubuntu Linux.

Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.31:

  • Support for USB 3.0;
  • CUSE and OSS proxy;
  • The desktop interactivity under memory pressure was improved;
  • Performance counters;
  • Support for IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networks);
  • Support for Gcov;
  • Kmemcheck;
  • Kmemleak;
  • Fsnotify;
  • Initial support for the NFS 4.1 client;
  • mmap readhead improvements;
  • Btrfs improvements;
  • Ext4 improvements.

Hopefully Ubuntu team will release soon the kernel for Ubuntu Linux:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

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One Response to “Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Has USB 3.0 Support”

  1. Istvan Says:

    September 12th, 2009 at %I:%M %p

    As supposed, the new kernel for Ubuntu is ready and can be downloaded from:
    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.31/


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