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Add Linux 4.7 #74

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Add Linux 4.7 #74

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Commits on Jul 27, 2016

  1. linux: Add version 4.7 

    Summary of changes from Kernel Newbies [1]:

> This release adds support for the recent Radeon RX 480 GPUs, support
> for parallel pathname lookups in the same directory, a new
> experimental 'schedutils' frequency governor that should be faster and
> more accurate than existing governors, support for the EFI 'Capsule'
> mechanism for upgrading firmware, support for virtual USB Devices in
> USB/IP to make emulated phones behave as real USB devices, a new
> security module 'LoadPin' that ensures that all kernel modules are
> loaded from the same filesystem, an interface to create histograms of
> events in the ftrace interface, support for attaching BPF programs to
> kernel tracepoints, support for callchains of events in the perf trace
> utility, stable support for the Android's sync_file fencing mechanism,
> and many other improvements and new drivers.

Also select the Kconfig option EDAC_IE31200.

> Support for error detection and correction on the Intel E3-1200 based
> DRAM controllers.

Commit 953dee9b (EDAC, ie31200_edac: Add Skylake support) adds support
for recent Intel Skylake controllers.

Some IDs still seem to be missing though.

```
$ lspci -s 0:0 -nn # heulsuse
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 DMI2 [8086:2f00] (rev 02)
```

[1] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.7
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  2. nvidia_linux: Build 367.18 and 340.96 for Linux 4.7 

    Copy the bee files. Version 367.18 fails to build with Linux 4.7, so
patch the driver sources in a similar way as described in [1].

[1] http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750
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