From cf97add8f0b5cfcded48d6d0dead7d88800bafb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 10:11:06 +0200 Subject: GNU Mach 1.7 * version.m4 (AC_PACKAGE_VERSION): Set to 1.7. * NEWS: Finalize for 1.7. --- NEWS | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 12394824..7626e401 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -Version 1.7 (2016-04-XX) +Version 1.7 (2016-05-18) -The code has been updated to work with newer versions of the compiler, -and numerous bugs have been fixed throughout the code. The code uses -integer types from 'stdint.h' now instead of the old Mach types. +The code has been updated to work with newer versions of GCC, and numerous bugs +have been fixed throughout the code, including a pageout deadlock. The code +uses integer types from now instead of the old Mach types. The VM cache policy change has been merged. The kernel now caches unreferenced VM objects unconditionally instead of using a fixed @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ The physical page allocator of the X15 kernel has been integrated, and is now used directly by the slab allocator. This increases the kernel heap addressing important scalability issues. -A synchronization mechanism was added, similar to the Linux futexes, to -allow efficient and powerful userland synchronization. +The gsync synchronization mechanism was added, similar to the Linux kernel's +futexes, to allow efficient and powerful userland synchronization. Support for profiling kernel code from userland through sampling was added. -- cgit v1.2.3