• Linux_2_6_4

2.6.4 was released March 11, 2004. Changelog

• Support for the Intel x86-64 architecture commit

• tty utf8 mode commit

• IPV4: Add sophisticated ARP reply control via arp_ignore sysctl commit

• IPV4: Add sysctl for per-socket limit on number of mcast src filters. commit

• IPV6: Add sysctl to force MLD version commit

• IPV4/IPV6: Add sysctl limits for mcast src filters. commit

• SELINUX: Event notifications via netlink. commit, commit

• net/bonding: Add support for HW accel. slaves commit

• AF_UNIX: Add SOCK_SEQPACKET support commit

• Add VLAN support in ALB mode commit

• Add VLAN support in TLB mode commit

• HFS rewrite and HFS+ support commit, commit

• XFS: Add XFS_FS_GOINGDOWN interface to xfs. commit

• JFS: Support sharing of journal by multiple volumes commit

• Add ARC4 crypto module commit

• Raise the number of groups an user can see from 32 to 65536. This limit is also visible via the read-only /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max file commit

• Generic kernel thread infrastructure (LWN article) commit

• Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3 commit

• Config option for irqbalance commit

• dm: Add dm-crypt target for device mapper commit

• md: Allow partitioning of MD devices. commit

• Add aio sysctl parms aio-nr and aio-max-nr commit

• Enable coredumps > 2GB commit

• Dynamic pty allocation commit

• smbfs: support the loop driver commit

• kNFSd: IDmap support for the NFSv4 server. commit

• kNFSd: Implement the nfsv4 RELEASE_LOCKOWNER operation. commit

• Drivers & Architecture

  • Add ARM architecture version 6 support. commit

  • Initial support for transmeta's efficeon processors commit

  • Add ARM925 support commit

  • MIPS mega-patch commit

  • Add Pentium M and Pentium-4 M options commit

  • ACPI PM timer commit

  • MIPS: New 2.6 serial drivers commit

  • ia64: add Altix hotplug support commit

  • ia64: add support for NUMA machines with CPU-only (memory-less) nodes commit

  • ia64: add support for time-interpolation via IBM EXA Cyclone timer commit

  • PPC64 iSeries virtual disk driver commit

  • ppc64: Add stack overflow debugging commit, commit, commit

  • ppc64: Add cpus and NUMA memory nodes to sysfs. Also add cpu physical id. commit

  • ppc64:Implement support for Apple DART IOMMU (PowerMac G5) commit

  • SPARC: Add stack usage instrumentation commit

  • oprofile: ARM infrastructure commit

  • oprofile: add Pentium Mobile support commit

  • IRDA: Add stir4200 driver commit

  • PCI Hotplug: Add SHPC and PCI Express hot-plug drivers commit

  • PCI Hotplug: Add PPC64 PCI Hotplug Driver for RPA commit

  • PCI Hotplug : add DLPAR driver for PPC64 PCI Hotplug slots commit

  • sk98lin: Added Support for Belkin adapter commit

  • ide-tape: remove obsolete onstream support commit

  • sf16fmr2 radio card driver commit

  • Add card types to aacraid driver commit

  • tigon3: Add Apple tigon3 PCI device id. commit

  • pcnet32.c add PCI hot remove support commit

  • e1000: flow control commit

  • Add IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver commit

  • V4L: Add new driver for Teletext decoder SAA5246A from Philips commit

  • Add Intel PCI ids to IDE (PATA) driver. commit

  • Add Intel PCI ids to old-OSS driver i810_audio commit

  • ata_piix: add support for ICH6 commit

  • Driver for IBM service processor commit, commit

  • ata_piix: Add yet another Intel ICH6 PCI id commit

  • New Permedia2 framebuffer driver. commit