The latest status update for the 2.5 series is available at
http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ with links for each item.
Of note since last week is the merge of NAPI, which is a way
to deal with high network packet load -- networking drivers
authors may want to take a look at the porting guide.
Also merged is a big ACPI patch, which should pave the way
for better power management in Linux.
As usual, please let me know of anything incorrect or missing.
Cheers,
-- Guillaume
------------------------------------------
Kernel 2.5 status - March 20th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.7)
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 2.5.6 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)
* in 2.5.7+ ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover,
ACPI team)
o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus
Torvalds)
o in -dj Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James
Simmons)
* in -ac Strict address space accounting (Alan Cox)
* in -ac PCMCIA Zoom video support (Alan Cox)
o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors
team)
o Ready New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
o Ready Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar
Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready Better event logging for enterprise systems (Larry
Kessler, evlog team)
o Ready New quota system supporting plugins (Jan Kara)
o Beta 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 Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim
Yaghmour)
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 Linux booting ELF images (Eric
Biederman)
o Beta First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric
Biederman)
o Beta Dynamic Probes (Suparna
Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta Scalable CPU bitmasks (Russ Weight)
o Beta Page table sharing (Daniel
Phillips)
o Beta Rewrite of the console layer (James
Simmons)
o Beta ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas
Dilger)
o Beta Radix-tree pagecache (Momchil
Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)
o Beta Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton
Altaparmakov)
o Beta Fast walk dcache (Hanna Linder)
o Beta Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
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 More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay
Schullist, from Procom donated code)
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 Delayed disk block allocation (Andrew
Morton)
* Alpha Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer (Alan Cox)
o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox,
Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.)
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)
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 New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones)
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 Ready Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh
Soni, IBM team)
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 Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones,
Randy Dunlap)
o Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones,
Randy Dunlap)
Have some free time and want to help? Check out the Kernel Janitor
TO DO list for a list of source code cleanups you can work on.
A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!
Guillaume, could you add an entry for UDF on CDRW write support that
Jens Axboe intents to merge in 2.5 (see url).
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101583526325962&w=2
Thanks,
Christophe
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:39:12AM -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> The latest status update for the 2.5 series is available at
> http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ with links for each item.
>
> Of note since last week is the merge of NAPI, which is a way
> to deal with high network packet load -- networking drivers
> authors may want to take a look at the porting guide.
> Also merged is a big ACPI patch, which should pave the way
> for better power management in Linux.
>
> As usual, please let me know of anything incorrect or missing.
> Cheers,
>
> -- Guillaume
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Kernel 2.5 status - March 20th, 2002
> (Latest kernel release is 2.5.7)
>
>
> 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 2.5.6 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)
> * in 2.5.7+ ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover,
> ACPI team)
>
> o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus
> Torvalds)
> o in -dj Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James
> Simmons)
> * in -ac Strict address space accounting (Alan Cox)
> * in -ac PCMCIA Zoom video support (Alan Cox)
>
> o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors
> team)
> o Ready New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
> o Ready Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar
> Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
> o Ready Better event logging for enterprise systems (Larry
> Kessler, evlog team)
> o Ready New quota system supporting plugins (Jan Kara)
>
> o Beta 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 Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim
> Yaghmour)
> 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 Linux booting ELF images (Eric
> Biederman)
> o Beta First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric
> Biederman)
> o Beta Dynamic Probes (Suparna
> Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
> o Beta Scalable CPU bitmasks (Russ Weight)
> o Beta Page table sharing (Daniel
> Phillips)
> o Beta Rewrite of the console layer (James
> Simmons)
> o Beta ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas
> Dilger)
> o Beta Radix-tree pagecache (Momchil
> Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)
> o Beta Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton
> Altaparmakov)
> o Beta Fast walk dcache (Hanna Linder)
> o Beta Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
>
> 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 More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay
> Schullist, from Procom donated code)
> 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 Delayed disk block allocation (Andrew
> Morton)
> * Alpha Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer (Alan Cox)
>
> o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo
> Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
> o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox,
> Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.)
> 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)
>
> 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 New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones)
>
>
> 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 Ready Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh
> Soni, IBM team)
>
> 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 Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones,
> Randy Dunlap)
> o Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones,
> Randy Dunlap)
>
> Have some free time and want to help? Check out the Kernel Janitor
> TO DO list for a list of source code cleanups you can work on.
> A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!
>
>
>
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Added to the latest update. Thanks for the feedback!
-- Guillaume
> Guillaume, could you add an entry for UDF on CDRW write support that
> Jens Axboe intents to merge in 2.5 (see url).
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101583526325962&w=2
>
> Thanks,
> Christophe
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:39:12AM -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> > The latest status update for the 2.5 series is available at
> > http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ with links for each item.
> >
> > Of note since last week is the merge of NAPI, which is a way
> > to deal with high network packet load -- networking drivers
> > authors may want to take a look at the porting guide.
> > Also merged is a big ACPI patch, which should pave the way
> > for better power management in Linux.
> >
> > As usual, please let me know of anything incorrect or missing.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Guillaume