2.6.9 kernel released

[Posted October 18, 2004 by corbet]

Linus has announced the availability of the 2.6.9 kernel. A very small number of fixes were added after the 2.6.9-final prepatch. For those just tuning in, 2.6.9 includes a lot of NTFS updates, block I/O barrier support, a patch allowing unprivileged process to lock small amounts of memory in RAM, a new USB storage driver, cluster-wide file locking infrastructure, completely out-of-line spinlocks, AMD dual-core support, support for the POSIX waitid() system call, KProbes, USB "on the go" support, the "flex mmap" user-space memory layout, m32r architecture support, a bunch of latency-reduction work, and lots of fixes.

Update see the (lengthy) changelog for a list of changes since 2.6.8.

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 19, 2004 2:17 UTC (Tue) by parimi (guest, #5773) [Link] (1 responses)

On clicking on the link for "the (lengthy) changelog", I see:

I'm sorry ...
...but I cannot allow you to do that.

(In other words, you've tried to perform a function which your account is not empowered to do. I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding...)

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 19, 2004 2:42 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Oops.

Fixed now, sorry.

kernel.org

Posted Oct 19, 2004 13:01 UTC (Tue) by kundor (guest, #14621) [Link] (2 responses)

This has been out since yesterday...is kernel.org ever going to be
updated?

kernel.org

Posted Oct 19, 2004 13:57 UTC (Tue) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link] (1 responses)

It's in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/, it's just that the front page hasn't been updated.

James.

kernel.org

Posted Oct 19, 2004 14:04 UTC (Tue) by ccezar (subscriber, #2749) [Link]

Probably they are waiting for mirrors to finish their work. Anyway, current bandwidth utilization at kernel.org is 238.41 Mbit/s, so they are saturated only in aproximately 21%.

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 19, 2004 20:53 UTC (Tue) by AAP (guest, #721) [Link] (4 responses)

Should I try it? Or should I wait for 2.6.9.1?

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 19, 2004 21:17 UTC (Tue) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link] (2 responses)

Working fine here. SMP box, VIA chipset, SCSI disk, ACPI, XFree86.

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 20, 2004 15:52 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] (1 responses)

I've found it to be a bit snappier than 2.6.8.1 on a 600MHz Epia box (compiled for C3). Very stable as far as I can tell. I haven't tried it yet on my P4 system.

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 20, 2004 22:13 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

How do you stand that thing... my 1GHz Nehemiah is barely fast enough. Where are the Pentium-M mini-itx boards!

2.6.9 kernel released

Posted Oct 20, 2004 19:49 UTC (Wed) by jarto (guest, #3268) [Link]

Works fine here too. The SiS SATA RAID controller even works with 2.6.9. 2.6.8 just hanged when the sata_sis module was probed.