Re: 2.5 feature list (was: Re: Slow development cycle)

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 20:04:08 EST


> > Okay. Where's Rik's list of exactly the features and
> > improvements that should go into 2.5 => 2.6? This one _is_
> > serious.
>
> Here is my (short) list. I'm sure others must have more:
>
> - threaded dcache
> - better VM (http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/)
> - fair scheduler (http://www.surriel.com/patches)
> - (better) support for NUMA machines
>
> - <your idea here>

Some more things needed for 2.5

Things I'm working on:

Finish cleaning up the fbdev layer with a new api
Incorporate Vojtechs input layer.
Add real multihead support to the console system.

Other nice things to add that I'm not involved with (yet):

Replace the cache of filenames in the VFS with a B+ tree algorithm.
Add support to allocate very large chunks of continous memory after boot time.

P.S

  The SGI Visual workstation code didn't compile for 2.3.99pre-9. Haven't
tried it for 2.4.0-test1 yet. Anyone working on Visual Workstations
anymore ?

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
fbdev/console/gfx developer \ o.O|
http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

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