I have 2.4.0-prerelease compiled and running.
If everything holds together I should be able update the current tree
sometime tomorrow.
I needs run some changes by Ananth first.
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> Subject: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:25:58 GMT
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some
> last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and
> the best I can do is make a prerelease.
>
> There's a 2.4.0-prerelease out there, and this is basically it. I want
> people to test it for a while, and I want to give other architectures the
> chance to catch up with some of the changes, but read my lips: no more
> recounts. There is no "prerelease1", to become "prerelease2" and so on.
>
> One thing other architectures will want to catch up with is the changes to
> handle 2GHz+ machines, which due to overflow issues caused "loops_per_sec"
> to become "loops_per_jiffy". And some architectures have not had much
> chance to synchronize with me due to other fires to put out.
>
> Give it your worst. After you recover from being hung-over, of course.
>
> Linus
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> prerelease:
> - Alan Cox: more synchronizations
> - Manfred Spraul: ptrace/suid-exec race fix
>
> - pre7:
> - x86 LDT handling fixes: revert some cleanups (the LDT really
> doesn't act like a TLB context)
> - Richard Henderson: alpha update (working memmove() from Ivan
> Kokshaysky etc)
> - Manfred: winbond-840.c net driver update (fix oops on module unload etc)
> - Alan Cox: more synchronizations (with some fixes from Andrew Morton)
>
> - pre6:
> - Marc Joosen: BIOS int15/e820 memory query: don't assume %edx
> unchanged by the BIOS. Fixes at least some IBM ThinkPads.
> - Alan Cox: synchronize
> - Marcelo Tosatti & me: properly sync dirty pages
> - Andreas Dilger: proper ext2 compat flag checking
>
> - pre5:
> - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update
> - Geert Uytterhoeven: m68k update
> - David Miller: TCP RTO calc fix, UDP multicast fix etc
> - Duncan Laurie: ServerWorks PIRQ routing definition.
> - mm PageDirty cleanups, added sanity checks, and don't lose the bit.
>
> - pre4:
> - Christoph Rohland: shmfs cleanup
> - Nicolas Pitre: don't forget loop.c flags
> - Geert Uytterhoeven: new-style m68k Makefiles
> - Neil Brown: knfsd cleanups, raid5 re-org
> - Andrea Arkangeli: update to LVM-0.9
> - LC Chang: sis900 driver doc update
> - David Miller: netfilter oops fix
> - Andrew Grover: acpi update
>
> - pre3:
> - Christian Jullien: smc9194: proper dev_kfree_skb_irq
> - Cort Dougan: new-style PowerPC Makefiles
> - Andrew Morton, Petr Vandrovec: fix run_task_queue
> - Christoph Rohland: shmfs for shared memory handling
>
> - pre2:
> - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update (including Makefiles)
> - Jens Axboe: cdrom updates
> - Petr Vandrovec; Matrox G450 support
> - Bill Nottingham: fix FAT32 filesystems on 64-bit platforms
> - David Miller: sparc (and other) Makefile fixup
> - Andrea Arkangeli: alpha SMP TLB context fix (and cleanups)
> - Niels Kristian Bech Jensen: checkconfig, USB warnings
> - Andrew Grover: large ACPI update
>
> - pre1:
> - me: drop support for old-style Makefiles entirely. Big.
> - me: check b_end_io at the IO submission path
> - me: fix "ptep_mkdirty()" (so that swapoff() works correctly)
> - fix fault case in copy_from_user() with a constant size, where
> ((size & 3) == 3)...
>
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>
> --
> Nathan
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