Its mostly a standstill patch versus 2.2.0pre6ac1 - just the stuff I didnt
get merged with Linus - but a few small items have been added. ac2 will
follow some time later with the stuff from the pending pile.
Differences between 2.2.0pre7 and 2.2.0pre7ac1
o Config help for Apollo and for INITIO scsi
o Large fd arrays (100,000 per process!)
o Console font handling fixes in 512 char mode
o Lance allows compiling as a module
o EEPro100 has byte counters
o Some shaper bug work - still doesnt work in 2.2.0pre
o Symbios 53c416 support
o QlogicFC fibre channel controller support
o Problems with certain numbers of disks fixed
o PAS2 and SB sound fixes
o Swap/page size header stuff handled right
o NFS client knows about BSD style FIFO rule
o Memory locking fixes for /proc
o AVL tree VMA handling for speed when running debug tools
o Root-dev sysctl works for both endians
o IP masquerade bug fix for ICMP masq
o NFS over TCP mostly works
o Xconfig fixes
o IPI counter on SMP
o ver_linux script improvements
Oh yeah I left some I2O references in in error. Just say N to those 8)
Alan
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