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outspoken
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject: what does mm mean - 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 |
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i'm not embarrassed to ask, well maybe a little. I did google first but didn't come up with anything. I understand that RC is Release Candidate as we all have to deal with that quite a bit. but MM, what is that? i'm guessing it is a precursor to a release candidate but would like an explanation if possible.
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masteroftheuniverse
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mm is a set of multimedia patches that are not technically declared stable. they're the patches that if are tested enough to be stable will most likely be features in the next kernel release. some things like reiser4 are supported in only these patch sets (mm, cko, etc...) |
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Gherald
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | mu root # emerge -s mm-sources
* sys-kernel/mm-sources
Latest version available: 2.6.12_rc1-r3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 41,207 kB
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: Andrew Morton's kernel, mostly fixes for 2.6 vanilla, some vm stuff too
License: GPL-2 |
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codergeek42
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-mm is Andrew Morton's patchset against Linus's tree. It contains various fixes as well as new code that, if all goes well, usually makes it into Linus's official tree soon after. You should consider -mm as a testbed for Linux kernel development. It's the unofficial 2.7 tree for all practical purposes.
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nxsty
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| masteroftheuniverse wrote: | | mm is a set of multimedia patches that are not technically declared stable. they're the patches that if are tested enough to be stable will most likely be features in the next kernel release. some things like reiser4 are supported in only these patch sets (mm, cko, etc...) |
-mm has nothing to do with multimedia. |
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outspoken
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| codergeek42 wrote: | | -mm is Andrew Morton's patchset against Linus's tree. It contains various fixes as well as new code that, if all goes well, usually makes it into Linus's official tree soon after. You should consider -mm as a testbed for Linux kernel development. It's the unofficial 2.7 tree for all practical purposes. |
cool, thanks for the info. i'll give it a try on my desktop machine at home. |
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dsd
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r0bertz
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| masteroftheuniverse wrote: | | mm is a set of multimedia patches that are not technically declared stable. they're the patches that if are tested enough to be stable will most likely be features in the next kernel release. some things like reiser4 are supported in only these patch sets (mm, cko, etc...) |
I heard that mm stands for memory management
Any one can confirm this? |
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Gherald
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| zhllg wrote: | | masteroftheuniverse wrote: | | mm is a set of multimedia patches that are not technically declared stable. they're the patches that if are tested enough to be stable will most likely be features in the next kernel release. some things like reiser4 are supported in only these patch sets (mm, cko, etc...) |
I heard that mm stands for memory management
Any one can confirm this? |
I'm pretty sure that's right; it dates to before Andrew's patch was general purpose in nature. |
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