2.6.15-Blackhawk

This release is based on the patches from the Fedora Core 5 2.6.15 
kernel, Con Kolivas patchset 2 for the 2.6.15 kernel and a series of 
patches part of the nitro3 patchset, found on the gentoo forums.

DISCLAMIER: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. 
THE AUTHORS OF THE ORIGNAL PATCHES, NOR THE PACKAGES MAKE ANY CLAIMS OF 
RESPONSIBILITY ABOUT ANY DATA LOSS, HARDWARE MALFUNCTION OR FAILURE 
RESULTING FROM, OR LINKED IN ANY WAY, TO THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. THE 
USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS SOLELY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PERSON INSTALLING 
IT.

Use at your own risk!!. That's right, we don't take any responsibility 
if your toaster starts acting up, foam comes out of its slots; your dog 
failed to get your paper; your hard drive decides to suddenly boot up 
into DOS 3, even if you don't have the disks or have never heard of or 
seen DOS 3, you have been warned!.

This is the latest Blackhawk build, intended for testing purposes.

The highlights of this release are:

    * Anticipatory I/O scheduler set as default, instead of CFQ. Good 
perofrmance I/O scheduler, although it may not perform as well with 
large databases.
    * Preemptible kenrel configured for all supported architectures.
    * Low latency preemption mode for multimedia applications and games.
    * SMP configurations support for up to 32-processors for x86_64 
configuration, support for 8 for i386, both include SMT support (PIVHT).
    * Support for softmac on 802.11.
    * Latest libata for improved and broader support for SATA and PATA 
devices. Improved speed on SATA.
    * Improved sound support:
          o Dynamic minors support (more than 8 soundcards)
          o Support for old ALSA API.
          o Added AMD C5535 support
          o Added Digigram PCXHR
    * USB HID mouse polling interval for improved mouse control set to 2 
miliseconds from previous release of 5 ms (report if any problems).
      Devices known to work at 2 ms:
          o Logitech MX family
          o Logitech Mouse Man Dua Optical
          o Logitech iFeel
          o Microsoft Intellimouse (wheelmouse, explorer, Optical)
          o Others (Genius and other brands)
    * NTFS read support.
    * Squashfs support.
    * Unionfs support.

Prominent patches applied, not configured by default due to possible 
incompatibilities, additional requirements:

    * ReiserFS 4 support. This filesystem is not configured by default 
as all the utiliteis required (namely reiserfsprogs) for this version of 
the filesystem have to be obtained by default, and the fact that the FS 
requires to be compiled into the kernel image. The functionality is 
there if anyone is willing to try it out.
    * Layer 7 Match NF support (from the help entry): Say Y if you want 
to be able to classify connections (and their packets) based on regular 
expression matching of their application layer data.   This is one way 
to classify applications such as peer-to-peer filesharing systems that 
do not always use the same  port. This is more a server option (router 
or firewall, actually), and as such is not set for Desktop use.