Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759298AbZATJTY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:19:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755330AbZATJSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:18:48 -0500 Received: from mx1.moondrake.net ([212.85.150.166]:50787 "EHLO mx1.mandriva.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755071AbZATJSo (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:18:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1794 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:18:44 EST X-Spam-Virus: No To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc2 X-URL: From: Thierry Vignaud Organization: Mandriva Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri\, 16 Jan 2009 12\:58\:55 -0800 \(PST\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1450 Lines: 29 Linus Torvalds writes: > It's out there now, or at least in the process of mirroring out. > > About half of the bulk is a late MIPS merge (tssk, tssk, but I really > couldn't make myself care too much), and there are a few odd new drivers > there too. In fact, of the non-MIPS code, drivers is about half of the > remaining one, and then firmware (which is really drivers too but shows up > separately) is half of _that_ remaining half. > > And there's the system call sign-extension for for the architectures that > need it (ppc/64 and s390/64). The rest is really pretty small. > > But despite being small, that's probably more important and noticeable to > most people: the first slew of regression fixes. We had non-working 3D > acceleration on many machines (no compiz! What shall we do without those > wobbly windows!) that should be fixed, and a ton of other irritating > issues like that. Well, "xorg failling to start up" regression fix hasn't yet been included. Since 2.6.28, X.org failed to start with SiS video cards due to PAT. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12372 The patch fix hasn't been included neither in RC1 nor in RC2... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/