Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.2-rc1, which was announced by Linus on January 20. A massive set of patches was merged into this release; included therein is a new Qlogic SCSI driver, a bunch of USB work, infrastructural work to better support hotplug block devices, several architecture updates, some I/O scheduler work, a rework of the PCMCIA drivers, sysfs support for several new types of devices, an XFS update, and much more. See the long-format changelog for the details.

The latest kernel from Andrew Morton, as of this writing, is 2.6.1-mm5. Recent additions to the -mm tree include a working modular IDE implementation, improved x86 CPU type selection options, a user-mode Linux update, and many other fixes.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.24. Marcelo released 2.4.25-pre5 on January 15; a "deadly mistake" there forced the release of 2.4.25-pre6 one day later. The 2.4.25 prepatches have been getting steadily smaller; there may be a release candidate coming in the near future.

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Building 2.2.25

Posted Jan 22, 2004 14:25 UTC (Thu) by utoddl (guest, #1232) [Link] (1 responses)

The current 2.2 kernel is 2.2.25, which has been out forever. Strangely enough, I had reason to build it the other day. (I'm trying to figure out when/how a problem krept in that's been bugging me since 2.4, but that's another story.) The README says what minimum GNU C, Kernel modutils, Binutils, etc. versions are required to build it, but we're way beyond any of those. I was surprised (well, not very) to find that I couldn't create a working 2.2.25 kernel with the tools that come with RedHat 9.

So, my question is, what are the maximum versions required for older stable kernels? Or, if that's not my problem, what am I doing wrong? I used to build 2.2 kernels, but that was back in the RedHat 6.x days. I'm open to suggestions...

Building 2.2.25

Posted Jan 22, 2004 16:35 UTC (Thu) by freethinker (guest, #4397) [Link]

Did you ask on the kernel mailing list? You could probably get better answers there.