Download Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Test8

Linus has released the eighth test version of the Linux Kernel 2.6.0 and is busy making final adjustments for the 2.6.0 stable. It full changelog is noticeably smaller than the previous one and the release notes look like this:

More changes than I would have liked, but most of them are fairly small. The most noticeable changes:

– fix the /proc/PID/stat oops that multiple people reported
– workaround for Athlon prefetch bug (occasional spurious page faults)
– fix serverworks PIO auto tuning
– fix some cpufrequency calculations
– make NFS O_DIRECT work

The rest are some architecture and driver updates, mostly stuff that people had queued up and convinced me I wanted to merge before freezing down totally.

I’ve flamed a number of people who flaunted the freeze (I cursed a lot more than I usually do , and they won’t have any excuse to do so for test9. So expect the patches to shrink considerably in the coming weeks.

Linus[break]The download is available as always in the following forms:
Tarball completely † patch
bzip2 completely † patch

Please note that at the time of writing the mirror at trueserver is not yet completely up-to-date. As a result, it may still happen that a download does not work yet.