A lot of stuff is going to need to be backported. Here's a phoronix link that 
tells of 50 power patches from Intel that landed this morning in 3.3 kernel. 
Not to mention graphics related stuff that 3.3 gains.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NDE

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:24:38 +1100
> From: them...@ubuntu.com
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin
> 
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:33:11PM EST, nick rundy wrote:
> > Here's a link to a thread that was posted today on Ubuntu Forums arguing 
> > that Precise Pangolin should be delayed long enough to incorporate the 3.3 
> > Linux kernel into the release. The argument being that the 3.3 kernel will 
> > resolve many more graphical and power bugs than the 3.2 kernel can.
> > 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1894436
> 
> In such circumstances, the Ubuntu kernel team often backports patches it 
> feels are important for a release. Since we do have some focus on power usage 
> this cycle, I am sure all useful and relevant patches will be backported from 
> 3.3, since this is an LTS release cycle.
> 
> Luke
> 
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