Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.33-rc1, released by Linus on December 17. The 2.6.33 merge window is now closed; significant patches merged since last week's summary include a direct rendering driver for the VMware virtual GPU, along with drivers for Maxim 8660/8661 voltage regulators, Marvell 88PM8607 PMIC devices, STMicroeletronics LIS3LV02Dx accelerometers, LaCie Network Space v2 NAS boards, DesignWare SPI controller core devices, Samsung S3C64XX series type SPI controllers, MDIO buses on Octeon SOCs, Octeon Management port Ethernet controllers, Cisco PowerTV platforms, and HP Smart Array SCSI controllers.

There have been a small number of patches merged since the 2.6.33-rc1 release; along with fixes, these include the kfifo API rework patch set.

Stable updates: The 2.6.27.42, 2.6.31.9, and 2.6.32.2 stable kernel updates were released on December 18. Each contains another long list of important fixes all across the kernel tree.

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