Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Feb 2007 21:35 UTC, submitted by diegocg
After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for details.
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Allows you to load the kernel at a different address. e.g. I think for kdump you don't need a separately compiled kernel for your dump kernel anymore (previously you needed one that was compiled for a different, fixed base address).