mainline kernel

Future versions of the Linux Kernel (such as 3.0) will include support for the

Phoronix: "Last month we published benchmarks of EXT4 comparing this file-system's performance when it was first marked stable in the mainline kernel and then where it is at now in the Linux kernel while testing every major release in between."

LWN.net: "One of the stated goals of the staging tree is to bring widely-used drivers into the mainline kernel tree.

This effort has been quite successful; the number of out-of-tree drivers has dropped considerably over the last year or so."

Phoronix: "Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa."

Linux.com: "This page is an attempt to track ongoing developments in the Linux development community that have a good chance of appearing in a mainline kernel and/or major distributions sometime in the near future."

LWN.net: "At the moment, Linux lacks an I/O controller in the mainline kernel. There is, however, no shortage of options out there.

This article will look at some of the I/O controller projects currently pushing for inclusion into the mainline."