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Linux Kernel 2.6.22 Released

Not many changes since RC7

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

9th of July 2007, 06:18 GMT

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Linus Torvalds announced last night the immediate availability of the 2.6.22 Linux kernel. This new release contains some tiny architecture changes (ppc, mips, blackfin), miscellaneous driver fixes:

"Not a whole lot of changes since -rc7: some small architecture changes (ppc, mips, blackfin), and most of those are defconfig updates. Various driver fixes: new PCI ID's along with some ide, ata and networking fixes (for example - the magic wireless libertas ioctl's got removed, they may be re-added later, hopefully in a more generic form, but in the meantime this doesn't make a release with new interfaces that aren't universally liked).", stated Linus Torvalds.

Highlights of this release include:

￭ New Slab allocator: SLUB
￭ New Wireless stack
￭ New Firewire stack
￭ Signal/timer events notifications

through file descriptors
￭ Blackfin architecture
￭ UBI
￭ Secure RxRPC sockets
￭ Process footprint measurement facility
￭ utimensat()

Among the new drivers introduced in this release we can mention:

Graphics:

￭ pm3fb: Preliminary 2.4 to 2.6 port
￭ New framebuffer driver (vt8623fb) for VIA VT8623
￭ Hecuba framebuffer driver
￭ arkfb: new framebuffer driver for ARK Logic cards
￭ atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driver
￭ Add Sun XVR-500 framebuffer driver. (commit) and Sun XVR-2500 framebuffer driver

Network:

￭ Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters driver
￭ Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver
￭ zr364xx V4L2 driver for USB webcams based on the zr364xx chipsets

For a full change-log with all the new features, drivers and improvements, please visit this website.

The Linux Kernel is the essential part of all Linux Distributions, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.

Linux is a clone of the Unix operating system, initially written from scratch by Linus Torvalds, assisted by a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims to achieve POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

You can download the Linux kernel now from Softpedia.

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