February 2012 Kernel Release

[Deepak Saxena]

The Linaro Kernel Working Group (KWG) and the Linaro Platform
Group are excited to announce the availability our February 2012
development snapshot:

linux-linaro-3.3-rc3-2012.02-1

As the word "snapshot" implies, these are meant as development kernels
and have not been fully validated. You should expect issues and to help
us deliver a better kernel in the future, please file bugs in Launchpad at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro.

We are excited about our first -rc based kernel as we move to a new
process that will provide early access to more bleeding edge features
on member-supported LEBs.

The source tarball is available at:
 http://launchpad.net/linux-linaro/3.3/3.3-rc3-2012.02/+download/linux-linaro-3.3-rc3-2012.02-1.tar.bz2

The kernel sources can also be accessed using git at:
 git://git.linaro.org/people/ynk/linux-linaro-tracking.git
 tag: linux-linaro-3.3-rc3-2012.02-1

This kernel includes the following changes from the 2011.11 kernel:

- Update to 3.3-rc3

- Various patches from Linaro

  * samsung_cpuidle_l2_retention patch set from the power management WG
  * thermal_cpu_cooling patch set from the power management WG
  * irq_domain patch set from Grant L. (cherry-picked from linux-next)
  * Fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918412
  * Basic device tree board support for supported ARM boards
    (comes from linux-linaro-3.1)
  * sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update (Vincent G.)
  * ARM: kprobes: work around build errors (Arnd B.)
  * usb: ehci: make HC see up-to-date qh/qtd descriptors ASAP (Ming L.)
  * Perf: Fallback to /bin/more if less is not found for perf pager (Avik S.)

A full change log against the 3.3-rc3 release is available at:
   http://launchpad.net/linux-linaro/3.3/3.3-rc3-2012.02/+download/CHANGELOG-linux-linaro-3.3-rc3-2012.02-1

High Priority Known Issues:

- None at this time

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