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From: "Guillaume Boissiere" <boissiere@attbi.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [STATUS 2.5] May 8, 2002 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:40:08 -0400 Many changes since last week - of particular note, the beginning of the new buffer layer by Andrew Morton and a much improved Bluetooth subsystem, courtesy of Maxim Krasnyansky et al. The gory details are at the usual URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ Don't hesitate to speak out of if there are any inaccuracies or missing items. Enjoy! -- Guillaume --------------------------------- Kernel 2.5 status - May 8th, 2002 (Latest kernel release is 2.5.14) Features: Merged o in 2.5.1+ Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe) o in 2.5.2 Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah- Hartman, etc.) o in 2.5.2 Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul) o in 2.5.2+ New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar) o in 2.5.2+ New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc.) o in 2.5.3 IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick) o in 2.5.3 Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs team) o in 2.5.3 Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott) o in 2.5.3 PnP BIOS driver (Alan Cox, Thomas Hood, Dave Jones, etc.) o in 2.5.3+ New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel) o in 2.5.4 Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love, MontaVista team) o in 2.5.4 Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT team) o in 2.5.4+ Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons) o in 2.5.5 Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team) o in 2.5.5 Pagetables in highmem support (Ingo Molnar, Arjan van de Ven) o in 2.5.5 New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64) (Andi Kleen, x86-64 Linux team) o in 2.5.5 New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64) (Anton Blanchard, ppc64 team) o in 2.5.5+ IDE subsystem major cleanup (Martin Dalecki, Vojtech Pavlik) o in 2.5.6 Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM) (JFS team) o in 2.5.6 per_cpu infrastructure (Rusty Russell) o in 2.5.6 HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa) o in 2.5.6 smbfs Unicode and large file support (Urban Widmark) o in 2.5.7 New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean Tourrilhes) o in 2.5.7 Video for Linux (V4L) redesign (Gerd Knorr) o in 2.5.7 Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) (Rusty Russell, etc.) o in 2.5.7+ NAPI network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov) o in 2.5.7+ ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover, ACPI team) o in 2.5.8 Syscall interface for CPU task affinity (Robert Love) o in 2.5.8 Radix-tree pagecache (Momchil Velikov, Christoph Hellwig) o in 2.5.8+ Delayed disk block allocation (Andrew Morton) o in 2.5.9 Smarter IRQ balancing (Ingo Molnar) o in 2.5.11 Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov) o in 2.5.11 Fast walk dcache (Hanna Linder) o in 2.5.11+ Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons) * in 2.5.12+ Rewrite of the buffer layer (Andrew Morton) o in 2.5.14 Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing) (Jens Axboe) * in 2.5.14 Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!) (Maxim Krasnyansky, Bluetooth team) o in -dj Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) o in -ac Strict address space accounting (Alan Cox) o in -ac PCMCIA Zoom video support (Alan Cox) o in -ac More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code) o Ready Better event logging for enterprise systems (Larry Kessler, evlog team) o Ready New quota system supporting plugins (Jan Kara) o Ready Linux booting ELF images (Eric Biederman) o Ready First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric Biederman) o Ready Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour) o Ready New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven) o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King) o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe) o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team) o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel) o Beta Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.) o Beta Add Linux Security Module (LSM) (LSM team) o Beta Hotplug CPU support (Rusty Russell) o Beta Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro) o Beta EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team) o Beta LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (LVM team) o Beta Dynamic Probes (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team) o Beta Scalable CPU bitmasks (Russ Weight) o Beta Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips) o Beta ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger) o Beta Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike) o Beta UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing) (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund) o Beta Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors team) o Beta New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond) o Beta Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team) o Beta USB device (not host) support (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah- Hartman) o Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team) o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise) o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds) o Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team) o Alpha UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite (Al Viro) o Alpha Scalable Statistics Counter (Ravikiran Thirumalai) o Alpha Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (Matt Robinson, LKCD team) o Alpha Add support for NFS v4 (NFS v4 team) o Alpha ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o) o Alpha Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer (Alan Cox) o Alpha New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Patrick Mochel) o Alpha Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, Dave Hansen, etc.) o Alpha Zerocopy NFS (Hirokazu Takahashi) o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code) o Started Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers) o Started Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team) o Started Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (ISDN4Linux team) * Started Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O (Andrew Morton) o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah-Hartman) o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro) o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel) o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, etc.) o Planning Generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens) o Planning New mount API (Al Viro) o Planning Implement new device naming convention (Device naming team) Cleanups: Merged o in 2.5.3 Break Configure.help into multiple files (Linus Torvalds) o in 2.5.3 Untangle include file dependancies (Dave Jones, Roman Zippel) o in 2.5.4 Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o in 2.5.4 Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik, Al Viro) o in 2.5.6 Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro) o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro) o Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro) o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise) o Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro) o Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro) o Beta Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh Soni, IBM team) o Alpha Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Patrick Mochel) o Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap) Have some free time and want to help? 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