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Re: Cox kernel?



The following link helped me understand what _was_ happening:

    http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/01/11/msg00147.htm
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It is a few weeks old and mostly contains another link and a personal 
opinion.

Hopefully others will found it still interesting. 


> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote:
> 
> > The 2.4.x kernel development has been moved from Alan to Marcello. Linus will
> > only announce new kernel 2.4.x releases, but won't touch any code actually...
> 
> ?
> 2.4.16 was released by marcello. so was 2.4.17pre2. linux didnt have
> anything to do with these, publicly.
> 
> > So Rik's VM implementation is out, and other Linus stuff that were in the
> > kernel (while they weren't in Alan's ac-tree) has been removed in favour of..
> > you guessed it - Alan's tree..
> 
> ???
> rik's vm is indeed out (although he is maintaining it himself),
> but marcello started working from 2.4.15, which was linus' tree, not
> alan's tree. i think you are mistaken here.
> 
> to answer the original question, the important bits in -ac have been
> merged into -linus before 2.4.15. as to the rest, i dont know. maybe
> it's 2.5.x material. is there anything specific you're interested in,
> tzahi?
> -- 
> mulix
> 
> http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/
> http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
> 
> 
> 
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