• Linux_2_6_4

2.6.4

• Released March 11, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.4 changelog]

• NGROUPS_MAX, which sets the maximum number of groups a user can belong to has increased the value to 65536 (was previously 32). This limit is also visible via the read-only /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max file. [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=60f095f22d9325fc88f128df204242f932c261dc (commit)]

• HFS rewrite and HFS+ support [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=b20f09ad0ab9e8ef215b5c6e0ead9effc6b80aee (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=367a470ffe60c58c69ae8bf288cbb4615002729b (commit)]

• Add SOCK_SEQPACKET for Unix domain sockets [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=32b46f96d41dfc67ad9d81c39487242ecc84be16 (commit)]

• Support for the Intel "ia32e" arch

• PPC64 iommu and TBL flush rework [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=aeb9bd1688d76c938acc4b17da8db33e8cbe1133 (commit)] - [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=7fb3b50550a866099fc8ea34b8565f12a104e2fa (commit)]

• UTF-8 tty mode [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=8026954da2b98a1a97af65d82c492816681c0faa (commit)]

• Dynamic PTY allocation (up to a million PTY devices)
• Sysfs support for SCSI tapes and bluetooth devices
• ARC4 crypto module Support for large numbers of groups

• Generic kernel thread infrastructure [http://lwn.net/Articles/65178/ (LWN article)]

• Groundwork for the hotplug CPU code

• ARC4 crypto module [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=d0119535d80f4f46d831fb48f1747e732c539c79 (commit)]

• Add dm-crypto crypto module [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=f3abc91effde1fd547e6005f36c94313fe970dd2 (commit)]

• Enable coredumps > 2 GB [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=0d274048bea986c7498a52ea5152d66833cd2cec (commit)]

• Add -mregparm=3 config option [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=cef3796e3aa0003e818a64374f439d353c49d574 (commit)]