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Start some stuff. Very basic, not even half way through linux changelog, but something. And two big things included
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Linux 2.6.20 greatly improves kdump (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285165,00.htm) | Linux 2.6.20 greatly improves kdump (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285165,00.htm); KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) for (Intel) hardware virtualization. |
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* ARM ** Support to change MX1 CPU frequency at runtime. |
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=== CPU Freq === * Add support for CN400 when ACPI C3 isn't available. === Drivers and other subsystems === * optimize o_direct on block devices: Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. * HWMon: New Winbond W83793 hardware monitoring driver |
Short overview (for news sites, etc)
Linux 2.6.20 greatly improves kdump (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285165,00.htm); KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) for (Intel) hardware virtualization.
Important things (AKA: ''the cool stuff'')
Other stuff
Arch-independent changes in the kernel core
Architecture-specific changes
* ARM ** Support to change MX1 CPU frequency at runtime.
Filesystems
* DebugFS: inotify support
Networking
CPU Freq
* Add support for CN400 when ACPI C3 isn't available.
Drivers and other subsystems
* optimize o_direct on block devices: Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. * HWMon: New Winbond W83793 hardware monitoring driver