From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263597AbTGKPld (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:41:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263894AbTGKPld (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:41:33 -0400 Received: from host-64-213-145-173.atlantasolutions.com ([64.213.145.173]:48084 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263597AbTGKPla (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:41:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:56:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Alan Cox Cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' Message-ID: <20030711155613.GC2210@gtf.org> References: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> <1057933578.20636.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1057933578.20636.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:26:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > - (Possibly linked to above bug) VIA APIC routing is currently broken. > > boot with 'noapic'. > > Does 2.5 not have the INTD routing fix yet ? It does. It is in both 2.4 and 2.5 mainline now. > > IDE. > > ~~~~ > > - Known problems with the current IDE code. > > o Serverworks OSB4 may panic on bad blocks or other non fatal errors > FIXED > > o PCMCIA IDE hangs on eject > Should be fixed in 2.5, fixed(ish) in 2.4 > > o ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it > > either use 2.4 or fix it 8) > > - IDE disk geometry translators like OnTrack, EZ Partition, Disk Manager > > are no longer supported. The only way forward is to remove the translator > > from the drive, and start over. > > Or to use device mapper to remap the disk. Definitely. I'm hoping that people will decide upon a userland that supports the popular (non-raid) partition tables as well as the simple raid partitions, too. Maybe that's a pipe dream, though ;-) > > Ports. > > ~~~~~~ > > - 2.5 features support for several new architectures. > > - x86-64 (AMD Hammer) > > - ppc64 > > - UML (User mode Linux) > > See http://user-mode-linux.sf.net for more information. > > - uCLinux: m68k(w/o MMU), h8300 and v850. sh also added a uCLinux option. > > - The 64 bit s390x port got collapsed into a single port, appearing > > as a config option in the base s390 arch. > > - In the opposite direction, arm26 was split out from arm. > > sh64 ? Only in 2.4. Jeff