status for 2.4.4

Just a quick heads-up: I was hoping to release a 2.4.4 based patch today but, unfortunately, several unexpected issues cropped up. Most importantly, something is currently wrong in the USB subsystem which prevents 2.4.4 from booting when a USB device is plugged in (this is not a 4GB memory limit issue). Also, there are some odd x86 emulation failures which I cannot explain yet. For example, mozilla used to work fine on my latest (unreleased) 2.4.3 patch and with 2.4.4 it fails consistently. I'll be on travel for most of the rest of the week, but I'll try to at least send out a test patch for 2.4.4 asap.

	--david