Kernel Summit Wrapup

Jonathan Corbet at LWN has posted a terrific summary of the first Day of the Ottawa Kernel Summit, and you should expect the second day soon. In it he relates the greatest hits of the first day's talks, including the AMD Hammer Port, Block I/O, Modules, and more. For mp3s or oggs of this event, check out the Kernel Summit MP3 Repository on SourceForge. The big news is the desire to feature freeze 2.5 within 4 or 5 months. Halloween. I've posted a very small gallery of the group pictures from the summit on my site.

Comments

I would like to see bsd style networking

[Billly Gates]

If any of you tried ip-chains or played around with NAT both under Linux then you know what I am talking about. Routing sucks bigtime compared to other unixes. I would like to setup NAT for 2 way address translation and a more readable scripts like ipf under *bsd but linux doesn't support it. In Windows2k you only click "enable internet connection sharing". Anyway I am not a hacker so I am only requesting it and would be nice to have. Also the new feature being discussed for 2.5x that is having outdated modules remain loaded in memory is a bad idea. This would make rebooting necessary when the system is full of garbage like WindowsNT. I also hope they fix the VM. Even the newer one is exhibiting some problems from what I heard. Especially on non intel platforms like the alpha.