Posted on Wednesday, August 03 2011 @ 12:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last week the DRM pull went in for the Linux 3.1 kernel. For
the Intel DRM graphics driver in the Linux kernel there is frame-buffer
compression clean-ups, high color support, ring frequency scaling,
shared LLC support, and hang-check module disabling. Compared to the
Linux 3.0 kernel, the driver improvements significantly boost the
open-source graphics performance for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware.
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at Phoronix.