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  • Linux_2_6_11

2.6.11 was released March 2, 2005. Changelog

  • "Big Kernel Semaphore": Turns the Big Kernel Lock into a semaphore (LWN article). commit

  • New Pipe implementation (LWN article). commit

  • Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities commit

  • Support 4 level page tables (LWN article). commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Add Infiniband support (LWN article) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Improve preemption on SMP commit

  • Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • Enhanced I/O and memory accounting commit, commit

  • mm: oom-killer tunable commit

  • Add debugfs (LWN article). commit, commit

  • sysfs: export the /sys/kernel subsystem for people to use. commit

  • kbuild: make kernelrelease commit

  • Add PR_GET_NAME commit

  • Enables the kernel to allocate several boot time hashes using vmalloc rather than alloc_bootmem, thereby causing the hashes to be interleaved amongst NUMA nodes, commit, commit, commit

  • Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases commit, commit

  • Permit nommu MAP_SHARED of memory backed files commit

  • Add ATA over Ethernet driver commit

  • TCP: Efficient port randomization commit

  • CRYPTO: Standalone VIA PadLock driver. commit

  • JFFS2: Add support for bizarre NOR flash with ECC. commit

  • EBTABLES: Add userspace logging via netlink socket. commit

  • Remove NAT to multiple ranges commit

  • iptables revision getsockopt, which allows userspace to query the revision number of extensions commit

  • Add bitops to ipt_MARK without breaking compatbility commit

  • /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type commit

  • SELinux scalability: convert AVC to RCU commit, commit

  • SELinux: add dynamic context transition support to SELinux commit

  • SELinux: enhance SELinux control of executable mappings commit

  • SELinux: add member node to selinuxfs commit

  • SELinux: add Netlink message types for the TC action code. commit

  • oprofile: stack trace sampling commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • knfsd: add the DELEGRETURN operation. commit

  • Net: Multicast filtering for tun commit

  • PKT_SCHED: tc filter extension API commit

  • ATALK: Add ioctls to allow ifx txqueuelen sets/gets commit

  • NETFILTER: Add --log-uid option to ipt_LOG/ip6t_LOG commit

  • NETFILTER: Add inversion to multiport match commit

  • NETFILTER: Improve TCP window tracking retransmission detection commit

  • NETFILTER: ipt_hashlimit rule load time race condition commit

  • IPV4: Add gc_min_interval_ms sysctl. commit

  • Remove umsdos from tree commit

  • random: remove pool resizing sysctl commit

  • random: run-time configurable debugging commit

  • cputime: introduce the idea of (virtual) cputime commit

  • Add a generic device transport class commit, commit

  • Use official Unicodes for DEC VT characters commit

  • Modules: Allow sysfs module parameters to be written to. commit

  • Configurable delay before mounting root device commit

  • Drivers & architectures

    • IA64 CPU hotplug topology commit

    • IA64-SGI: Add support for a future SGI chipset (shub2) commit, commit, commit, commit

    • IA64: Remove Merced B-step support commit

    • ARM: Add IXP46x and IXDPG465 implementation commit

    • ARM: Add DMA mmap() support. commit

    • ppc32: Marvell host bridge support (mv64x60) commit

    • ppc32: support for Marvell EV-64260[ab]-BP eval platform commit

    • ppc32: support for Force CPCI-690 board commit

    • ppc32: support for Artesyn Katana cPCI boards commit

    • ppc32: add Support for IBM 750FX and 750GX Eval Boards commit

    • ppc32: performance Monitor/Oprofile support for e500 commit

    • ppc32: add uImage to default targets commit

    • ppc32: Add Freescale PQ2FADS support commit

    • ppc32: Add support for Pegasos machines commit

    • ppc64: kprobes implementation commit

    • ppc32: add PPC440SP and Luan ref board support commit

    • x86_64: Add reboot=force commit

    • x86_64: Add SRAT NUMA discovery to x86-64. commit

    • x86_64: Scheduler support for AMD CMP commit

    • x86_64: Allow to configure more CPUs and nodes. commit

    • x86_64: Add SLIT (inter node distance) information to sysfs. commit

    • x86_64: remove centaur mtrr support commit

    • uml: add elf vsyscall support commit

    • uml: Add TRACESYSGOOD support commit

    • uml: sysfs support for uml network driver. commit

    • uml: sysfs support for the uml block devices. commit

    • ARM: Add basic SMP support. commit

    • ARM: PXA: Add support for the Sharp SL-C7xx series of PDAs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

    • ARM: TLS support for ARM commit

    • ARM: Add SMP IRQ affinity and routing support. commit

    • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add MMC Support commit

    • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add USB Device Controller support commit

    • ARM: S3C2410 - serial auto-flow-control enable commit

    • ARM: Adds new machine: ixp4xx based gtwx5715 commit

    • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add Backlight Device Definition commit

    • i386: AMD dual core support for i386 commit

    • UML: x86-64 core support commit, commit, commit, commit

    • PPC64 Add PREEMPT_BKL option commit

    • mips: AMD Alchemy I2C driver commit

    • input: Add support for Kensington ThinkingMouse PS/2 protocol. commit

    • input: Add ALPS touchpad driver commit

    • input: Add AT-compatible rawmode generation for ARM. commit

    • Input: add a new signature for ALPS DualPoint found in Dell Inspiron 8500 commit

    • Input: atkbd - export extra, scroll, set, softrepeat and softraw as individual keyboard attributes (sysfs) and allow them to be set/changed independently for each keyboard: commit

    • r8169: TSO support. commit

    • r8169: vlan support commit

    • r8169: Rx checksum support commit

    • r8169: Tx checksum offload commit

    • r8169: netconsole support commit

    • Input: i8042 ACPI enumeration - add PNP IDs found in AMD64 laptops. commit

    • Input: i8042 - allow turning debugging on and off "on-fly" commit

    • ACPI: create ACPI hotplug eject interface commit

    • ACPI: Extend processor driver to support ACPI-based Physical CPU hotplug commit

    • ACPI: Initial container driver to support hotplug notifications on ACPI0004, PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 devices. commit

    • Add Altimata PHY to sis900 driver commit

    • S2io: module loadable parameters commit

    • ALSA: Add subvendor ID to the pci id table of vx222 driver commit

    • ALSA: emu10k1: add interval timer support commit

    • ALSA nonblock_open=1 by default for OSS PCM API emulation commit

    • sk98: add netpoll console support commit

    • sk98: basic ethtool support commit

    • sk98: ethtool phy support commit

    • sk98: ethtool pause param support commit

    • libata: sata_via: add support for VT6421 SATA commit

    • libata: sata_uli: add 5281 support, fix SATA phy setup for others commit

    • MTD: Provide XIP support for Intel flash chips. commit

    • MTD: Support NOR and NAND flash on Sharp SL Series PDAs. commit

    • MTD: NAND flash simulator commit

    • ALSA: add Line/Headphone jack detection for AD1981A/B commit

    • ALSA: via82xx: Enable DXS on ABIT KV8 Pro commit

    • ALSA: Support for Audigy2 Value SB0400 commit

    • ALSA: add register dump to proc commit

    • MTD: New mapping driver for IBM 405GP 'Walnut' board. commit

    • USB: serial driver for TI USB 3410/5052 chips commit, commit, commit

    • USB Storage: support 'bulk32' devices commit

    • ftdi_sio: Add sysfs attributes for event character and latency commit

    • AGPGART: Add support for ALI M1681/M1683 commit

    • I2C: i2c-nforce2 supports the nForce3 250Gb commit

    • Garmin gps driver patch 0.23 commit

    • SCSI: Add basic infrastructure for transport host statistics commit

    • SCSI: Add FC transport host statistics commit

    • qla2xxx: Tx/Rx Sensitivity additions commit

    • aacraid 2.6: Support for new cards commit

    • USB: additional device id for kaweth driver commit

    • ACPI: Add _CST parsing commit

    • ACPI: Export /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate commit

    • PCI: add legacy resources to sysfs for pci busses commit

    • AGPGART: ULI M1689 support. commit

    • SCSI: add queue_type entry in sysfs commit

    • ACPI: add "processor.nocst" parameter which blocks _CST parsing and always uses FADT info instead. commit

    • Bluetooth: Add module parameter for HCI_Reset commit

    • Early ALI watchdog support commit

    • SCSI: Add FC transport host attributes commit

    • CPUFREQ: make ondemand governor aware of CPU domains commit

    • CPUFREQ: cpufreq stat output in sysfs commit

    • CPUFREQ: proc_cpufreq: remove /proc/cpufreq interface commit

    • CPUFREQ: userspace: remove /proc/sys/cpu/ interface commit

    • ide: serverworks: add support for CSB6 RAID commit

    • Intel ICH7 DID's, PIRQ and PATA support commit

    • osst: add sysfs support commit

    • ALSA: Added VIA82xx-modem driver commit

    • ALSA: IEC958 Capture mixer controls and Universe support commit

    • ALSA: Add 'Duplicate Front' control commit

    • ALSA: hwdep interface for pcm data commit

    • ALSA: Hotplug firmware loader support commit, commit

    • Intel thermal monitor for x86_64 commit

    • ALSA: Allow strings for ac97_quirk options commit

    • ALSA: Add emu10k1x driver commit

    • ALSA: Add snd-ca0106 driver commit

    • SERIAL: support for another Rockwell PNP modem commit

    • ALSA: rme9652: Add hotplug firmware loader support commit

    • ALSA: Add CODEC and BUS device types commit

    • ALSA: Add a new ID commit

    • EDD: add edd=off and edd=skipmbr options commit

    • Bluetooth: Add module parameter for ignoring a device commit

    • MTD: New blockdev-backed 'fake' MTD device. commit

    • MTD: Remove long-obsolete DiskOnChip 1000 driver. commit

    • Resurrect ISICOM serial commit

    • r8169: Large Send enablement commit

    • net: Netconsole poll support for 3c509 commit

    • ULi support for 526X tulip variants commit

    • SATA support for Intel ICH7 commit

    • emac: allow rx of the maximum sized VLAN tagged packets commit

    • emac: Add netpoll support commit

    • new PCI_ID for tulip commit

    • forcedeth: add ethtool get/set_settings support commit

    • 8139cp: support for TTTech MC322 commit

    • I2C: add new sensors driver: SMSC LPC47B397-NC commit

    • eepro: basic ethtool support commit

    • raid6: altivec support commit

    • ixgb: Enable Message Signalled Interrupts commit

    • ixgb: Add support for 10GbE LR device ID commit

    • ixgb: Remove support for RAIDC interrupt mitigation commit

    • ixgb: ethtool_ops support commit

    • 3c59x: support more ethtool_ops commit

    • mtd: added NEC uPD29F064115 support commit

    • input: Add support for H-Wheel on Microsoft Explorer and Logitech MX USB HID mice. commit

    • libata: sata_sil: support ATI IXP300/IXP400 SATA commit

    • FC Transport updates - additional fc host attributes commit

    • I2C support for Intel ICH7 - 2.6.10 - resubmit commit

    • I2C: add EMC6D100 support in lm85 driver commit

    • PCI: add PCI Express Port Bus Driver subsystem commit

    • USB: usbnet: Olympus R1000 PDA, and blacklisting if CDC && !ZAURUS commit

    • USB: add driver for the Siemens ID Mouse fingerprint sensor commit

    • USB: add Ever UPS vendor/product id to ftdi_sio driver commit

    • ide: piix: add Intel 82801DBL IDE Controller support commit

    • ide: atiixp: add IXP400 support commit

    • pcmcia: modify irq_mask via sysfs commit

    • serial: MPSC driver commit

    • backlight: Add Backlight/LCD device basic support commit

    • fbdev: Add w100 framebuffer driver commit

    • drm: add drm specific sysfs support commit

    • AGPGART: i915GM support commit

    • ACPI: Add a module parameter to allow tuning how much bus-master activity we remember when entering C3 -- /sys/module/processor/parameters/bm_history Default varies with HZ -- 40ms for 25 - 800 HZ, 32ms for 1000 HZ. commit

    • dvb: support pinnacle pctv-sat, clean-ups commit

    • dvb: support nxt2002 frontend, misc skystar2 fixes commit

    • dvb: add ATSC support, misc fixes commit

    • dvb: nxt2002: add ATSC support, misc fixes commit

    • sd descriptor sense support commit

    • Bluetooth: Add RFCOMM service level security commit

    • add i2c adapter id for the cx88 driver. commit

    • SATA AHCI support for Intel ICH7R commit

    • input: Enable scancode event generation in the HID driver. This should allow changing HID->event mappings (via EVIOCS*) in the future and make debugging easier now. commit

    • drm: radeon hyperz support.. commit

    • drm: add radeon framebuffer tiling support and surface management commit

    • Bluetooth: Support raw mode only devices commit

    • ACPI: add "pnpacpi=off" commit

    • OProfile: Support model 4 P4 commit

    • dvb: support up to six DVB cards commit

    • backlight: Add backlight driver for Sharp Corgi PDAs commit

    • USB: another usbnet ax8817x device (goodway docking station) commit

    • ide: remove adma100 commit

    • Bluetooth: Support Broadcom BCM92035 USB dongles commit

    • Bluetooth: Support for Digianswer BPA 100/105 sniffers commit

    • libata: sata_promise: add PCI ID for new SATAII TX2 card commit

    • libata: ahci: Add support for ULi M5288 commit

    • ALSA: Special AC97 patch for ASUS W1000/CMI9739 laptop commit

    • ALSA: Enable HP jack sense for FSC Scenic-W commit

    • ALSA: AC'97 Audio support for Intel ICH7 commit

    • ALSA: Add missing FORWARD ioctl commit

    • sonypi: add fan and temperature status/control commit

    • SERIAL: add TP560 data/fax/modem support commit

    • sata_qstor: new basic driver for Pacific Digital commit

    • USB: Add ioctls to ub commit

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