Kernel support for Centaur CPU
Kernel max CPU support increase to 16 cores
Xen and KVM paravirtualize guest support
Enable High Precision Event Timer (HPET)
Update e1000e (e.g. i217) driver to version 3.0.4
Update igb (e.g. i210) driver to version 5.0.6
Update intel_idle to support Ivy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Xeon, and other features as posted here
New wireless drivers from backports-3.12.0 version
Bluetooth driver support
Remove wireless and multimedia kernel configuration, switch to backports (compat-drivers/compat-wireless)
Add alx driver to support Atheros AR816x/AR817x
Fixed rmmod and insmod GRUB option
Fixed missing mpt2sas driver
Fixed v5 installation
Known Issues:
No multimedia drivers and missing legacy wireless drivers
WOL is not supported by tg3 driver on some devices(e.g. NC107i)
Possible volume1 (/dev/md2+) and iSCSI corruption due to kernel changes, got hit twice while running some test
Download access to follow, don't **ing play with the form!
Notes:
To switch from older Intel drivers use the following GRUB option
rmmod=e1000e_new,igb_new insmod=e1000e,igb