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David Airlie has called upon Linus Torvalds to pull in his DRM Git tree that offers the key Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver improvements for the Linux 3.1 kernel. Previously I talked about some of the DRM changes for Linux 3.1. What is found in David's tree for the Linux 3.1 merge window is nearly the same. The open-source graphics driver changes queued up for the Linux 3.1 kernel aren't nearly as exciting as what has been merged during some of the past kernel development cycles. There isn't any major new hardware support, no ground-breaking features, or other really fundamental changes, but just some modest updates.

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