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Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1
Linus has released the 2.6.26-rc1 prepatch
and declared the 2.6.26 merge window to be closed. "So this merge
window was somewhat rocky in the sense that there was a lot of arguments
about it, but at the same time I at least personally think that from a
technical angle, we had somewhat less scary stuff going on than has been
almost the rule lately." At about 7500 commits, this cycle has
fewer changes than the last couple have; a lot of the changes are
infrastructural, so there will be fewer obvious new features with 2.6.26
than with some of its predecessors. Some of the more significant additions
include PAT support in the x86 memory management code, more realtime group
scheduler work, read-only bind mounts, the KGDB debugger, and lots of new
drivers. See the short-form changelog for
details, or the
full changelog for lots of details.
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Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1 Posted May 4, 2008 0:39 UTC (Sun) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] For the curious: Documentation/x86/pat.txt.
Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1 Posted May 5, 2008 17:17 UTC (Mon) by bersl2 (guest, #34928) [Link] Speaking of "curious": What's the difference between UC and UC-?
PAT Posted May 6, 2008 15:31 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] This is important for X (any anything else that uses the display). Since we have not had PAT, we use the MTRRs. There are only a few MTRRs. If they get used up before X can have some, then X gets half the frame-rate it should. I suppose there could be non-display drivers that need this feature to work optimally as well.Bruce
Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1 not building Posted May 4, 2008 15:55 UTC (Sun) by lalleglad (guest, #51895) [Link] It hasn't happened to me before that I couldn't build a new kernel from Linus' own tree. Now it did and I wonder how to provide such info to relevant people? I wonder if there are any other ways than listing up on the LKML, posting it, and then quit the mailing list again, which in the old days would have been what I would have done, but since a couple of years LKML is way too busy.
Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1 not building Posted May 4, 2008 17:07 UTC (Sun) by maks (subscriber, #32426) [Link] you can post it on lkml without beeing subscribed. but yeah if you have dvb enabled rc1 doesn't compile.
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