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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Linux kernel release 2.6.xx + Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org> These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6. Read them carefully, as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the @@ -6,23 +6,31 @@ kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong. WHAT IS LINUX? - Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with - assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. - It aims towards POSIX compliance. + Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by + Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across + the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. - It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged - Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, - demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory - management and TCP/IP networking. + It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, + including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand + loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, + and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details. ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN? - Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs. These days it also - runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and - Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others. + Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), + today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and + UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, + IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, + and Renesas M32R architectures. + + Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures + as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the + GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has + also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although + functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. DOCUMENTATION: @@ -183,11 +191,8 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel: COMPILING the kernel: - - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. - gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2), and gcc 2.7.2.3 are known to miscompile - some parts of the kernel, and are *no longer supported*. - Also remember to upgrade your binutils package (for as/ld/nm and company) - if necessary. For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes. + - Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available. + For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes. Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel. |