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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.182131.2168@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 18:21:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 35
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- The subject says it all: the newest patches have been uploaded to
- nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/testing/Linus. Patchlevel 5 is available both
- as complete source (linux-0.97.5.tar.Z) or as a biggish patch against
- patchlevel 4 (linux-0.97.patch5.Z).
-
- Patch 5 fixes the extended filesystem problems (thanks to Remy Card), as
- well as including many smaller fixes (some more fs cleanups, the CDROM
- patches and several other minor changes). Pl5 finally removes even the
- last few header-files that were incompatible with the normal headers, so
- the "-nostdinc -I$(KERNELHDRS)" stuff is gone.
-
- Patch 5 should also fix the problems with iopl() that resulted in the
- X8514-server having problems with 0.97.pl2 and above.
-
- In case people are wondering, my schedule for 1.0 looks something like
- this:
-
- - 0.98 out in about a week: this is essentially 0.97.5 + the tcp/ip
- directory, as well as any fixes that may come up. I'll try to get
- the loadable driver interface into it too.
-
- - 0.99 out after 0.98 has been shaken down: a month or so.
-
- - 1.0 will be the same as 0.99: the only changes will be eventual
- trivial bug-fixes in case 0.99 has some problems. This is just to
- try to get over the "X.0" bug syndrome.
-
- There are a few on-going projects: depending on circumstances these will
- be implemented sooner or later, so I won't give any promises. These
- include: loadable drivers/fs's (alpha-patches already availabla), full
- support for different block-sizes (some work still required), and a
- extensive rewrite of the mm routines (I'll want to make a vmm interface
- similar to the vfs interface for the filesystem routines).
-
- Linus
-