Kernel development

Brief items

Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test1; Linus has been busy and has released no new development kernels over the last week.

Linus has put a few things into his BitKeeper tree, including some ACPI fixes, an ia-64 update, a PPC32 update, a number of USB tweaks, a new local_t for cpu-local atomic variables, and various other fixes and updates.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.21. The current 2.4.22 prepatch is 2.4.22-pre7, released by Marcelo on July 18; it includes a Super-H architecture merge, some I/O scheduler work, and various fixes and updates. Marcelo promises the first release candidate within a couple of weeks.

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Kernel development news

A slow week for the kernel page

Things have been relatively slow in the kernel development world due to the fact that many kernel hackers are on the road to attend the kernel summit and OLS. Your editor is also on the road, so this week's Kernel Page will be small. For those who haven't yet seen it, our 2003 Kernel Summit coverage will, hopefully, provide a sufficient kernel news fix for the week. This page will return to its regular size next week.

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Patches and updates

Kernel trees

• Alan Cox: Linux 2.6.0-test1-ac3. (July 23, 2003)

• Andrew Morton: 2.6.0-test1-mm2. (July 23, 2003)

• Stephen Hemminger: 2.6.0-test1-osdl2. (July 17, 2003)

• Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.22-pre7. (July 18, 2003)

• Andrea Arcangeli: 2.4.22pre7aa1. (July 19, 2003)

• Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.22-pre6-ac1. (July 18, 2003)

• Andrea Arcangeli: 2.4.22pre6aa1. (July 17, 2003)

• Andrea Arcangeli: 2.4.22pre6aa2. (July 18, 2003)

Core kernel code

• Ingo Oeser: Providing generic pipelines and io routing as Linux service. (July 18, 2003)

• Con Kolivas: O7int for interactivity. (July 18, 2003)

• Pavel Machek: FYI: my current swsusp bigdiff. (July 22, 2003)

Device drivers

• Andrew Vasquez: QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).. (July 18, 2003)

• Greg KH: USB fixes for 2.6.0-test1. (July 18, 2003)

• Erik Andersen: Promise SATA driver GPL'd. (July 23, 2003)

• Jeff Garzik: libata driver update posted. (July 23, 2003)

Documentation

• Sam Ravnborg: docbook: Added support for generating man files. (July 23, 2003)

Filesystems and block I/O

• Alasdair G Kergon: LVM 2.0/Device-Mapper 1.0 available at ftp.sistina.com. (July 18, 2003)

• Christophe Saout: File backed target for device-mapper. (July 23, 2003)

• junkio@cox.net: Port SquashFS to 2.6 (take 2). (July 20, 2003)

Memory management

• Ingo Molnar: 4G/4G split patch, 2.6.0-test1-G7. (July 20, 2003)

Networking

• Jeff Garzik: 2.6.0-test net driver merges. (July 20, 2003)

• Jeff Garzik: more 2.6.x net driver merges. (July 20, 2003)

Architecture-specific

• Tolentino, Matthew E: EFI support for ia32 kernel. (July 18, 2003)

• Dominik Brodowski: PM Timer as primary timing source on i386. (July 19, 2003)

• Peter Chubb: Microstate accounting for 2.6.0-test1. (July 22, 2003)

• Jeff Dike: uml-patch-2.5.70-1. (July 18, 2003)

Security-related

• Stephen Smalley: Updated SELinux module for 2.6.0-test1. (July 17, 2003)

Miscellaneous

• Philippe Gerum: Adeos m3. (July 19, 2003)

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