Of note this week the merge of the syscall compatibility layer.
Also more bug reports in bugzilla (http://bugme.odsl.org/),
which probably means more people are testing 2.5 these days.
Full status list is at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/
Please let me know if anything is inaccurate or missing.
Cheers,
-- Guillaume
--------------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - December 4th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.50)
o before 2.6.0 Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
o before 2.6.0 Support insane number of groups (Tim Hockin)
o before 2.6.0 Worldclass support for IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetsov, Dave Miller, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o before 2.6.0 Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team)
o before 2.6.0 32bit dev_t (Al Viro)
o before 2.6.0 Fix device naming issues (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o before 2.6.0 Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
o before 2.6.0 USB gadget support (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o before 2.6.0 Improved AppleTalk stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o before 2.6.0 ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger)
BUGZILLA (bugs ordered by severity level):
13 blo [email protected] OPEN user-mode-linux (ARCH=um) compile broken in 2.5.47
44 blo [email protected] OPEN radeonfb does not compile at all - seems incomplete? or w...
118 blo [email protected] OPEN Load IDE-SCSI module causes OOPS in 2.5.49
66 blo [email protected] ASSI SMP Kernel Compile for Sparc32 fails
123 blo [email protected] ASSI SiL 680 IDE controller has "issues"
35 hig [email protected] OPEN Riva Framebuffer doesn't compile
111 hig [email protected] OPEN hugetlbfs does not align pages
113 hig [email protected] OPEN CMD649 or ALI15X3 problem under 2.5.49 and since many pre...
129 hig [email protected] OPEN usb-storage crashes my pc when i plug in a SIIG Compact F...
10 hig [email protected] ASSI USB HCs may have improper interrupt configuration with AC...
71 hig [email protected] ASSI RTL8100BL (8139) do not work on acpi UP without local apic
84 hig [email protected] ASSI qconf crashes when setting default NLS
130 hig [email protected] ASSI problems mounting root partition with 2.5.48+ kernels
11 nor [email protected] OPEN Intermezzo Compile Failure
18 nor [email protected] OPEN Synaptics touchpad driver
19 nor [email protected] OPEN aty128fb does not compile
32 nor [email protected] OPEN framebuffer drivers dont compile
46 nor [email protected] OPEN Two mice: unwanted double-clicks & erratic behavior
48 nor [email protected] OPEN APM suspend and PCMCIA not cooperating
49 nor [email protected] OPEN register_console() called in illegal context
54 nor [email protected] OPEN 100% reproduceable "null TTY for (####) in tty_fasync"
58 nor [email protected] OPEN OHCI-1394: sleeping function called from illegal context ...
63 nor [email protected] OPEN compile error with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE yes
69 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer bug
72 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer scrolls at the wrong times/places
79 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer scrolling problem
94 nor [email protected] OPEN file remain locked after sapdb process exist.
104 nor [email protected] OPEN MIPS fails to build: asm/thread_info.h doesn't exist
106 nor [email protected] OPEN sysfs hierarchy can begin to disintegrate
110 nor [email protected] OPEN Current bk Linux-2.5, VFS Kernel Panic from Devfs + NO UN...
115 nor [email protected] OPEN Kernel modules won't load
116 nor [email protected] OPEN all mounts oops
117 nor [email protected] OPEN build failure: arch/ppc/kernel/process.c
119 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.49 - Dell Latitude weirdness at shutdown
122 nor [email protected] OPEN emu10k1 OSS troubles
126 nor [email protected] OPEN bzImage build failure on input devices support as module
128 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.50 CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP fails to build without
131 nor [email protected] OPEN "hda: lost interrupt"; "hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status" on...
132 nor [email protected] OPEN windows ip check ARP packet replied by kernel when proxy_...
134 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.50 breaks pcmcia cards
135 nor [email protected] OPEN SB16/Alsa doesn't work
136 nor [email protected] OPEN FSID returned from statvfs always 0
5 nor [email protected] ASSI 64GB highmem BUG()
7 nor [email protected] ASSI file lock accounting broken
9 nor [email protected]... ASSI Ehci do not leave system in a sensible state for bios on ...
15 nor [email protected] ASSI No dma on first hard drive
16 nor [email protected] ASSI reproduceable oops in lock_get_status
36 nor [email protected] ASSI Long tape rewind causes abort on aic7xxx
37 nor [email protected] ASSI IDE problems on old pre-PCI HW
39 nor [email protected] ASSI undefined reference to `boot_gdt_table'
42 nor [email protected] ASSI 8139too ifconfig causes oops
43 nor [email protected] ASSI e100 drivers crashes on non cache-coherent platforms
51 nor [email protected] ASSI isapnp does not register devices in /proc/isapnp
52 nor [email protected] ASSI aic7xxx driver fails to boot on netfinity 7000
53 nor [email protected] ASSI IDE cd-rom I/O error
100 nor [email protected] ASSI LTP - gettimeofday02 fails (time is going backwards)
105 nor [email protected] ASSI gettimeofday cripples system running with notsc
20 low [email protected] OPEN Kernel AGP support needs to be initialized sooner
8 low [email protected] ASSI i2o_scsi does not handle reset properly
28 low [email protected] ASSI Compile time warnings from starfire driver (with PAE enab...
29 low [email protected] ASSI Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at m...
78 low [email protected] ASSI make dep on lk configuration exit
83 low [email protected] ASSI Wish: ability to quickly cycle through (NEW) config options
63 bugs found.