Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2

[Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>]

Given the interest shown the last time you thought about removing
it, I think it would be appropriate to add LTT back again.

Cheers,

Karim

Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> 
> I've reorganized the list into 5 categories based on the feedback
> I received.  Now let's see what happens  :-)
> 
> In line with your expectations?
> 
> -- Guillaume
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Likely to be merged before feature freeze:
> 
>   o New VM with reverse mappings
>   o Add Linux Security Module (LSM)
>   o New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver
>   o Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling
>   o Add User-Mode Linux (UML)
>   o Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O
>   o Fix device naming issues
>   o Remove the 2TB block device limit
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> "The pressure is on! (TM)":
> (either gets merged before feature freeze or has to wait till 2.7)
> 
>   o Rewrite of the console layer
>   o XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)
>   o LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0
>   o Zerocopy NFS
>   o Asynchronous IO (aio) support
>   o New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)
>   o Serial driver restructure
>   o Replace initrd by initramfs
>   o ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Can be merged after the feature freeze and before the 2.6 release:
> 
>   o Strict address space accounting
>   o More complete NetBEUI stack
>   o Add hardware sensors drivers
>   o PCMCIA Zoom video support
>   o Change all drivers to new driver model
>   o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)
>   o USB gadget support
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Would be nice to have before feature freeze, but most likely 2.7:
> 
>   o Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer
>   o Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion
>   o New IO scheduler
>   o Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs
>   o EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)
>   o Dynamic Probes
>   o Page table sharing
>   o ext2/ext3 online resize support
>   o Better event logging for enterprise systems
>   o UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite
>   o Scalable Statistics Counter
>   o Linux Kernel Crash Dumps
>   o SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
>   o High resolution timers
>   o Overhaul PCMCIA support
>   o Reiserfs v4
>   o New lightweight library (klibc)
>   o New mount API
>   o Generic parameter/command line interface
>   o Full compliance with IPv6
>   o Serial ATA support
>   o Add support for NFS v4
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Definitely 2.7:
> 
> o InfiniBand support
> o Add thrashing control
> o Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel
> 
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                 Karim Yaghmour
               karim@opersys.com
      Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert
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