December 4, 2002
Of note this week the merge of the syscall compatibility layer. Also more bug reports in bugzilla (http://bugme.odsl.org/),
which probably means more people are testing 2.5 these days.
Full status list is at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/
Please let me know if anything is inaccurate or missing. Cheers,
-- Guillaume
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Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - December 4th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.50)
o before 2.6.0 Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) o before 2.6.0 Support insane number of groups (Tim Hockin) o before 2.6.0 Worldclass support for IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetsov, Dave Miller, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team) o before 2.6.0 Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team) o before 2.6.0 32bit dev_t (Al Viro) o before 2.6.0 Fix device naming issues (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman) o before 2.6.0 Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers) o before 2.6.0 USB gadget support (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman) o before 2.6.0 Improved AppleTalk stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o before 2.6.0 ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger)
BUGZILLA (bugs ordered by severity level):
13 blo [email protected] OPEN user-mode-linux (ARCH=um) compile broken in 2.5.47 44 blo [email protected] OPEN radeonfb does not compile at all - seems incomplete? or w...
118 blo [email protected] OPEN Load IDE-SCSI module causes OOPS in 2.5.49
66 blo [email protected] ASSI SMP Kernel Compile for Sparc32 fails
123 blo [email protected] ASSI SiL 680 IDE controller has "issues"
35 hig [email protected] OPEN Riva Framebuffer doesn't compile
111 hig [email protected] OPEN hugetlbfs does not align pages 113 hig [email protected] OPEN CMD649 or ALI15X3 problem under 2.5.49 and since many pre... 129 hig [email protected] OPEN usb-storage crashes my pc when i plug in a SIIG Compact F... 10 hig [email protected] ASSI USB HCs may have improper interrupt configuration with AC... 71 hig [email protected] ASSI RTL8100BL (8139) do not work on acpi UP without local apic 84 hig [email protected] ASSI qconf crashes when setting default NLS 130 hig [email protected] ASSI problems mounting root partition with 2.5.48+ kernels 11 nor [email protected] OPEN Intermezzo Compile Failure 18 nor [email protected] OPEN Synaptics touchpad driver 19 nor [email protected] OPEN aty128fb does not compile 32 nor [email protected] OPEN framebuffer drivers dont compile 46 nor [email protected] OPEN Two mice: unwanted double-clicks & erratic behavior 48 nor [email protected] OPEN APM suspend and PCMCIA not cooperating 49 nor [email protected] OPEN register_console() called in illegal context 54 nor [email protected] OPEN 100% reproduceable "null TTY for (####) in tty_fasync" 58 nor [email protected] OPEN OHCI-1394: sleeping function called from illegal context ... 63 nor [email protected] OPEN compile error with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE yes 69 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer bug 72 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer scrolls at the wrong times/places 79 nor [email protected] OPEN Framebuffer scrolling problem 94 nor [email protected] OPEN file remain locked after sapdb process exist. 104 nor [email protected] OPEN MIPS fails to build: asm/thread_info.h doesn't exist 106 nor [email protected] OPEN sysfs hierarchy can begin to disintegrate 110 nor [email protected] OPEN Current bk Linux-2.5, VFS Kernel Panic from Devfs + NO UN... 115 nor [email protected] OPEN Kernel modules won't load 116 nor [email protected] OPEN all mounts oops 117 nor [email protected] OPEN build failure: arch/ppc/kernel/process.c 119 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.49 - Dell Latitude weirdness at shutdown 122 nor [email protected] OPEN emu10k1 OSS troubles 126 nor [email protected] OPEN bzImage build failure on input devices support as module 128 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.50 CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP fails to build without 131 nor [email protected] OPEN "hda: lost interrupt"; "hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status" on... 132 nor [email protected] OPEN windows ip check ARP packet replied by kernel when proxy_... 134 nor [email protected] OPEN 2.5.50 breaks pcmcia cards 135 nor [email protected] OPEN SB16/Alsa doesn't work 136 nor [email protected] OPEN FSID returned from statvfs always 0 5 nor [email protected] ASSI 64GB highmem BUG() 7 nor [email protected] ASSI file lock accounting broken 9 nor [email protected]... ASSI Ehci do not leave system in a sensible state for bios on ... 15 nor [email protected] ASSI No dma on first hard drive 16 nor [email protected] ASSI reproduceable oops in lock_get_status 36 nor [email protected] ASSI Long tape rewind causes abort on aic7xxx 37 nor [email protected] ASSI IDE problems on old pre-PCI HW 39 nor [email protected] ASSI undefined reference to `boot_gdt_table' 42 nor [email protected] ASSI 8139too ifconfig causes oops 43 nor [email protected] ASSI e100 drivers crashes on non cache-coherent platforms 51 nor [email protected] ASSI isapnp does not register devices in /proc/isapnp 52 nor [email protected] ASSI aic7xxx driver fails to boot on netfinity 7000 53 nor [email protected] ASSI IDE cd-rom I/O error 100 nor [email protected] ASSI LTP - gettimeofday02 fails (time is going backwards) 105 nor [email protected] ASSI gettimeofday cripples system running with notsc 20 low [email protected] OPEN Kernel AGP support needs to be initialized sooner 8 low [email protected] ASSI i2o_scsi does not handle reset properly 28 low [email protected] ASSI Compile time warnings from starfire driver (with PAE enab... 29 low [email protected] ASSI Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at m... 78 low [email protected] ASSI make dep on lk configuration exit 83 low [email protected] ASSI Wish: ability to quickly cycle through (NEW) config options
63 bugs found.