The 2.6.11 kernel is out

[Posted March 2, 2005 by corbet]

Linus has, at long last, released the 2.6.11 kernel. Only a small set of fixes has gone in since the last release candidate. Changes since 2.6.10 include InfiniBand support, four-level page tables, a rework of the direct rendering code, in-inode extended attributes for ext3 (gives better Samba performance), a new pipe implementation, a bunch of latency reduction work (though some latency issues remain), the Big Kernel Semaphore patch, and lots more. See the long-format changelog for the details.

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 2, 2005 15:20 UTC (Wed) by pbardet (guest, #22762) [Link] (2 responses)

I hope they kept the SB0400 Audigy 2 Value driver.
It was in rc1 but can't find any mention in the log.

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 2, 2005 15:40 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link]

I suspect it is part of the emu10k1 driver, since a 'grep SB0400 *' at the top level of the kernel tarball returns thusly:

sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1.c:
* Class 0401: 1102:0008 (rev 00) Subsystem: 1102:1001 -> Audigy2 Value Model:SB0400

sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1.c:
{ 0x1102, 0x0008, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 1 }, /* Audigy 2 Value SB0400 */

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 3, 2005 22:32 UTC (Thu) by Algol (guest, #2681) [Link]

Audigy 2 Value (SB0400) is working for me with 2.6.11 at least :)

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 2, 2005 17:58 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (1 responses)

The in-inode xattr (also known as large inodes) patch is good for Samba and for Lustre. Presently, Lustre is a huge set of patches on top of vendor kernels. Merging this patch into mainline makes it more like that Lustre will be supported on kernel.org kernels sometime in the future.

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 3, 2005 5:06 UTC (Thu) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]

Lustre has (in the past few days) had another "public release", which is excellent news. It is still way behind the commercial version, but that's forgivable - even if it is annoying. The combination of patches likely to accelerate Lustre, combined with a 2.6-capable Lustre release, has the potential for being a powerful combination. I would like to see Lustre (and other cluster & grid technologies) in more distributions. At present, distros don't do well on the higher-end stuff, especially if it is more likely to appeal to scientists than office workers.
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I think it's more likely people would find a use for Lustre and Globus than they would for a large number of near-identical office suites & DVD players, if they had to choose. (A range of choices is good, provided it doesn't come at the expense of having options. Then, it defeats the whole purpose.)

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 2, 2005 22:02 UTC (Wed) by deater (subscriber, #11746) [Link]

Wow, I was really expecting this late Wednesday night, just after the LWN deadline as always...

The 2.6.11 kernel is out

Posted Mar 3, 2005 15:54 UTC (Thu) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

BTW, if you guys out there are using swsusp, you should really try this version. Software suspend was a bit of a rough ride for me in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10, so I tried -rc5 last week and it turned out to be really cool. Suspending is _much_ faster here than any time before, and I even can use orinoco modules again to have wireless support (after rmmod and again modeprobe'ing them though)...