Various staging driver updates and sound driver work and other glorious work.ZRAM supports a compressed block device in RAM to avoid paging to disk and is mostly of benefit for systems with limited amounts of system memory. zRAM has been promoted out of the staging area of the kernel.This kernel does deliver on disk improvements.

Random F2FS, XFS, and Btrfs file-system improvements.The EXT4 file-system now supports aggressive extent caching and better recovery capabilities.AMD Berlin APU support as the first APU built upon AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA).Experimental DRM render nodes support done by David Herrmann over the summer.Run-time GPU power management so NVIDIA Optimus systems can dynamically power on/off the secondary GPU.A brand new DRM/KMS driver in the form of the Snapdragon MSM driver written by Rob Clark to go along with his reverse-engineered Freedreno driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon/Adreno graphics.The Radeon open-source kernel graphics driver has improved Dynamic Power Management, but it won’t be until Linux 3.13 where Radeon DPM is enabled by default along with HDMI audio.Follow the instructions for your architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.

Installing Kernel 3.12 in Ubuntu 12.04/13.04/13.10, Linux Mint 14/15/16, Debian Wheezy and Debian KWheezy is easy. In this article i will show you how to install the Kernel 3.12 final release on Ubuntu 12.04/13.04/13.10, Linux Mint 14/15/16, Debian Wheezy and Debian KWheezy. For more information about the fixes and enhancements brought by the latest Kernel version, see the mailing lists. Linus Torvalds has released the first stable version of Kernel 3.12 yesterday.

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