ACM wist ons te vertellen dat er een nieuwe linux kernel uit is in de 2.5 serie. Een van de belangrijkere toevoegingen is de preemption patch. Hieronder een changelog wat deze keer niet zo groot is.
Summary of changes from v2.5.4-pre6 to v2.5.4
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Sparc64 thread_info implementation.(02/02/09 1.248.1.11)
Build fixes for sparc64 outside of sparc64 specific files.(02/02/10 1.248.4.1)
Update alpha defconfig to the options available in 2.5.4-pre5.(02/02/10 1.248.1.12)
Sparc64 preemption support.(02/02/10 1.248.1.13)
Add CONFIG_PREEMPTION.(02/02/10 1.248.1.14)
Clean up sparc64 build(02/02/10 1.257.1.1)
[PATCH] preempt-kernel on UP compile fix
A recent scheduler change looks to of affected this, and I missed it
since I did my last testing on SMP only. Please, apply.
Robert Love(02/02/10 1.259)
[PATCH] check copy_from_user return codes in serial drivers.
forward-ported from 2.4(02/02/10 1.262)
update version