Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test4; Linus has not released any kernels since August 22.

That situation may have changed by the time you read this, however; Linus is back from his vacation and has merged a great many changes into his BitKeeper tree. Patches there include a reworked de4x5 driver, "very basic" VIA 8237 serial ATA controller support, a set of MODULE_ALIAS() calls (see below), support for a software-implemented hard disk activity LED, Intel High Precision Event Timers support, Al Viro's first set of large dev_t support patches (covered here last week), some IDE work, a large USB update, lots of network driver fixes, a new set of iptables modules, and many other fixes.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.22. Marcelo released the second 2.4.23 prepatch on August 30; it contains a set of IDE patches, some USB and networking fixes, and a number of other updates. 2.4.23-pre3 followed on September 3, with a fair amount of networking work, a backport of the 2.6 request_firmware() interface, a DRI/DRM update, gcc-3.3 support, and various other fixes.

Marcelo also notes that he has left Conectiva; his kernel work is now being supported by Cyclades.

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Posted Sep 4, 2003 1:49 UTC (Thu) by mbcook (subscriber, #5517) [Link] (1 responses)

Is the HPTE thing a P4 thing, a PIII thing, a i845 thing, what? What has HPTE? Just wondering.

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Posted Sep 4, 2003 19:57 UTC (Thu) by KeyResearch (guest, #14583) [Link]

HPET (not HPTE) is an Intel-developed standard, but it's supported by both AMD and Intel. Typically, the HPET lives in the northbridge. I think most modern northbridges have them.

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Posted Sep 4, 2003 5:57 UTC (Thu) by xanni (subscriber, #361) [Link]

Just a minor nitpick: You've written "contains contains" in the third paragraph.

Keep up the good work,
Andrew Pam