Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:23:43 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 17, 2001 |
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Just to add my pet point to the list.
o Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver
Cheers,
Anton
At 07:13 17/01/02, Guillaume Boissiere wrote: >I've seen several times on this list people wondering what features >were in the works for 2.5 and what the status of the development was. >I did some grepping on the archive and put together a list of things >that have been discussed / worked on for 2.5 over the past year or so. > >It's probably pretty incomplete and full of errors at this point but >I'll be happy to update it if you send me email. > >o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar) >o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe) >o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds) >o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (Greg KH, others) >o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike) >o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team) >o Ready IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick) >o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) >o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond) >o Beta New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean Tourrilhes) >o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe) >o Beta Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from SGI) (JFS team) >o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel) >o Beta Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love) >o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton) >o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour) >o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team) >o Ongoing Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team) >o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise) >o Alpha Integrate EVMS into kernel (EVMS team) >o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons) >o Started New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel) >o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) >o Started More complete NetBEUI and 802.2 net stacks (Alnaldo C de M) >o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg KH) >o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (hpa, Al Viro) >o Planning Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers) >o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel) >o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, etc) >o Planning Porting all input devices over to input API (James Simmons) >o Planning generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens) > >I hope this is helpful. Enjoy! > >-- gb > >---------------------------------------- >Guillaume Boissiere > >- >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/
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