kernel-2.6 test8

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:00:39PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  > from a previous posting, i recall someone referring to the RH kernel
>  > release as being "heavily patched" from the pristine source. while i plan
>  > on opening up the src.rpm to see what the patches are, can someone
>  > summarize the *major* RH changes?  just curious.
> 
> NPTL.
> HT aware O(1) Scheduler with interactivity improvements from 2.6

ok, i'm a bit confused.  i thought these were inherently a part of the 2.6
kernel already.  why would these features be part of the *patches* added
by RH to 2.6?

> Exec-Shield.
> CPUFreq
> Low-latency
> Laptop-mode
> Lots of small fixes..
> 
> 		Dave

rday