Linus Torvalds laat via Linux Today weten dat er voor de kerst een nieuwe kernel is gebakken voor Linux. Er is vooral aandacht besteed aan onder andere SCSI-, AGP- en USB-support:
A happy christmas to you all, and in case I'm too busy putting batteries
in the kids presents the rest of the year, here's a 2.5.53 for you.
It's got stuff all over - SCSI updates, ACPI, ia64, sparc, USB, net,
device mapper, AGP, ALSA, you name it. Meanwhile I worked mostly on the
sysenter support, we'll have to wait for glibc releases to test that out
more.
Oh, and merges with Andrew and Dave.
Linus[break]
Hieronder staat een klein gedeelte uit het changelog van de nieuwe kernel:[/break]
Summary of changes from v2.5.52 to v2.5.53
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gibbs(at)overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
Update aic7xxx driver to 6.2.10. Add aic79xx U320 SCSI driver version
1.1.1
gibbs(at)overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
Final 1.1.1 aic79xx driver updates
gibbs(at)overdrive.btc.adaptec.com
Bring in some deltas that were missed in the aic79xx 1.1.1 and aic7xxx
6.2.10 updates. The aic79xx driver now also supports mid-layer induced
ordered tag operations.
davidm(at)tiger.hpl.hp.com
ia64: Make mremap() work properly when returning "negative" addresses.
Based on patch by Matt Chapman.
davidm(at)tiger.hpl.hp.com
ia64: Define new "arch_switch" macros so that the tasklist_lock can
be released during the (low-level) context-switch. Patch by
Erich Focht.
davidm(at)tiger.hpl.hp.com
ia64: Fix efi_memmap_walk() to work with more complicated memory maps.
Fix ACPI_ACQUIRE_GLOBAL_LOCK and ACPI_RELEASE_GLOBAL_LOCK.
Both bugs reported by Charles Sluder.
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