(Release Notes for 2.6.17-rc6-no2)  "Futura"
(cheater-conrad,joecool, and predatorfreak)

{-----Release-Specific-----}
This release is based off of the latest TESTING patch for the stable linux kernel tree (2.6.17-rc6)
Staircase was ported to v15.6 by cheater-conrad. (This was a very lengthy process and caused several
headaches, the scheduler builds for NON-SMP and SMP systems and boots on both of them) Please give
feedback to cheater-conrad, DO NOT post scheduler-related bugs to anyone EXCEPT cheater-conrad.
CHANGES > 2.6.17-rc6-no1:
- Upgraded to 2.6.17-rc6-mm2
- Completely ran through and updated the staircase sched.c to comply with 2.6.17-rc6-mm1.
- Repaired tons of false definitions in order to fix the build and boot with SMP systems.
- Added nvidia gentoo overlay to fix the build of nvidia-kernel on gentoo
- Fixed VMSPLIT patch so it isn't required to be embeded
- Removed fbsplash for now due to vesafb-tng loss
- Removed vesafb-tng because it broke the entire kernel, will fix it some other time

{-----Patchset-Specific-----}
No-Sources is based off of the EXPERIMENTAL branch of the linux tree, -mm. No-sources is available
for users to test some experimental/testing features and have a optimized/performance kernel. Despite
all these experimental patches, most releases will build and work on 9 architectures.

{-----CPU Scheduler Selection-----}
With no-sources, you are able to choose between ingosched or staircase via Kconfig. (created by cheater-conrad
and predatorfreak) Staircase is astounding and performs incredibly, particulary with the combination of -mm patches,
therefore it is the default in no-sources.

{-----NVIDIA USERS (Gentoo)-----}
Use the following overlay:
http://no.oldos.org/files/2.6.17-rc6-no2/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2
Instructions:
mkdir /usr/local/portage (define, PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" in make.conf)
mkdir /usr/local/portage/media-video
tar jxvf nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2
mv nvidia-kernel /usr/local/portage/media-video
emerge nvidia-kernel

Base:

2.6.17-rc6.bz2 | pre-patch to the stable linux kernel

2.6.17-rc6-mm2.bz2 | Andrew Morton's experimental/testing patchset

No-Patches:

NoSched-0.3-2.6.17-rc6-mm1.patch | Select which cpu scheduler to use via Kconfig
config-nr-tty-devices-r1.patch | Configure # of tty devices in the Kconfig (revision by predatorfreak)
no-tag.diff | Tag the latest no-sources release
optimize-default-kconfig-opts.patch | Effectively optimize default kconfig opts for a standard desktop
kernel-mark-false-positives.patch | Mark several false positives. (predatorfreak)
add-devfs-header.patch | Re-Add the devfs header. A few old alsa drivers require it.

Bug Fixes:

git-powerpc-fix.patch | Fix powerpc

Filesystems:

squashfs-3.0.patch | Support for the squash filesystem

Selectable Extendable CPU Support:

cpu-support.patch | Allows selectable extended CPU support, the below patches improve/fix problems with this.
movsl-mask.patch
mtrr-cpusupport.patch

Spock:

- fbsplash-0.9.2-r5-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.patch | Support for gensplash
- vesafb-tng-1.0-rc1-r3-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.patch | vesafb alternitive

L-7 Filter Support:

netfilter-later7-2.1.patch | Layer7 Support for Netfilter.

Realtime Linux Security Modules:

realtime-lsm.patch | Support for the real-time linux security module

Other:

shutup-false-positives.patch | Hide gcc false positives of uninitialized variables.
usb-mouse-polling.patch | USB Mouse polling hack.
ibm-fancontrol.patch | Allows you to control the fan speed on the IBM ThinkPad.
usbxchange5.patch | Support for loading firmware onto the USBXchange/USB2Xchange USB to SCSI converter.
vmsplit-config-options.patch | This was removed from -mm, incidently or purposely, but I want it there.