Linux 2.6.20 finally released!

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:49 pm

After 7 release candidates, it's finally out.

http://www2.kernel.org/
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 ... Log-2.6.20

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:54 pm

Does anyone have pointers to an executive executive summary of the changes? The changelog was insane this time around.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:01 pm

Snarkout wrote:Does anyone have pointers to an executive executive summary of the changes? The changelog was insane this time around.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17165/L ... 0-Released
"After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for details."

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:09 pm

Yeah, another new feature in this kernel is support for Intel Core 2 processors.

Code: Select all

CONFIG_MCORE2: 
                                                                       
   Select this for Intel Core 2 and newer Core 2 Xeons (Xeon 51xx and 53xx
   CPUs. You can distingush newer from older Xeons by the CPU family       
   in /proc/cpuinfo. Newer ones have 6.                                   
                                                                          
   Symbol: MCORE2 [=n]                                                     
   Prompt: Core 2/newer Xeon                                               
     Defined at arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu:106                                  
     Depends on: <choice>                                                  
     Location:                                                             
       -> Processor type and features                                      
         -> Processor family (<choice> [=y])

allix · Post by **allix** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:47 am

will Dan be compiling it on Wednesday night ?

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:40 am

Looks like netfilter is changing it's format again...