Here are the notes I used for the talk on Saturday. It includes a few URLs that are helpful. Most of the talk came from the post Halloween document by Dave Jones. Introductions The deal with kernel versions - x.y.z - stable kernels have even y - development kernels have odd y - extra version options - ac Alan Cox - mm Andrew Morton - aa Andrea Arcangeli - pre/rc/test Documentation to read - Documentation/Changes - Wonderful World of 2.6 http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html - post Halloween document http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt - REPORTING-BUGS - lkml FAQ http://www.lkml.org/faq/ What are some new things with 2.6? - New build system, not kbuild 2.5 - make dep is no longer needed - other new/helpful targets - New config system, not cml2 - config files are spread around the tree - default xconfig requires qt - might want to start with defconfig - sysfs and extended hotplug support - eventually taking over devfs - based on a system model - userspace implmentation of dynamic /dev - block I/O layer - device mapper replaces LVM in kernel - XFS in the kernel :) - lots of work on VM, scheduler, and interactivity - Large Block Device support - Greater than 2TB support - initramfs replaces initrd - klibc Stuff to watch out for when trying 2.6.0-test[123] - CONFIG_INPUT - reorganized config menus - new module-init-tools - doesn't seem to provide recursive lookup yet _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list