First Development Release - Feb 23, 2002 - based on 2.4.17

• ACPI power button support (T. Kouchi)
• ccNUMA: Discontiguous memory support (T. Luck, J. Steiner)
• ccNUMA: IRQ redirection (gives IRQ affinity on AzusA) (E. Focht)
• ccNUMA: Multi-queue scheduler (E. Focht)
• MCA logging (J. Hall, A. Mayer)
• Updates to support SGI SN hardware (J. Steiner)
  Current file is: linux-atlas-022202.patch.bz2

Second Development Release - June 2002 - based on 2.4.18

Existing from last release:

• Updates to support SGI SN hardware (J. Steiner) Update from 2.4.17 to .18
• ccNUMA: Discontiguous memory support (T. Luck, J. Steiner) Update from 2.4.17 to .18
• ccNUMA: Multi-queue scheduler (E. Focht) Update from 2.4.17 to .18

New additions:

• ccNUMA: CpuMemSets (P. Jackson, Samuel Ortiz)
• ccNUMA: Node-affinity Multi-queue scheduler (E. Focht)
• CPU hot plug (version one) without ACPI interface* (K. Suganuma)
• PCI hot plug using ACPI (T. Kouchi, H. Aono) (Currently in 2.4.19, will backport for .18)
• copy_page.diff (A. Mallick, prohibits lfetch against non-existing physical memory)
• LKCD Crash Dump Facility (Piet Delaney)

Please use this IA64 patch: linux-2.4.18-ia64-020410.diff.bz2

Accepted into kernel or IA64 patch since last release:

• MCA logging (J. Hall, A. Mayer)
• ccNUMA: IRQ redirection (gives IRQ affinity on AzusA) (E. Focht)
• ACPI power button support (T. Kouchi)

• ccNUMA: node-affine scheduler load balancing (E. Focht)
  

Fourth Development Release - Fourth Quarter 2002

• CPU hot plug (version two) with ACPI interface* (K. Suganuma)
• IO node hotplug with ACPI* (H. Aono, various Fujitsu developers)
• Memory hot plug (version one) with ACPI interface* (K. Suganuma, T. Kouchi)

Sixth Development Release - Second Quarter 2003

• CPU hot plug (version three) complete tested version* (K. Suganuma)
• Memory hot plug (version two) complete tested version* (K. Suganuma)