Messages in this thread | | | From | "Guillaume Boissiere" <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:33:51 -0500 | Subject | [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002 |
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Here is a new and improved list, thanks to all the great feedback I have received from dozens of people. Again, if there are any inaccuracies, please let me know and I will do my best to correct it for next week.
For everyone's enjoyment, I have also put an online version, (with hyperlinks, yeah!) at: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/boissiere/Status-18-Jan-2002.html
Items in bold are new since last time. Also, to avoid having the list become too big over time, I have decided that I will only accept items that can be expected to be merged within the next 6 months (i.e. the end of June).
Enjoy!
-- Guillaume
------------------------------------------------------------- Kernel 2.5 status - January 18th, 2002
Features:
o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi) o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe) o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc) o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, others) * Pending IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick) * Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds) o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike) * Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa) o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team) o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond) * Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven) * Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King) o Beta New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean Tourrilhes) o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe) * Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov) o Beta Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM) (JFS team) * Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS 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) * Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds) * Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov) 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 (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah-Hartman) o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter Anvin, 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)
Cleanups:
* Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) * Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise) * Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik)
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