1 files changed, 47 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6d05598..bce21cc 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
    <a href="#publications">publications</a> - 
    <a href="#download">download</a> - 
    <a href="#install">installation</a> -
-   <a href="#links">documentation</a>      
+   <a href="#doc">documentation</a>      
    </p>
    </div>
 
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
     is supported. 
     </p>
     <p>
-    The current version of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is <strong>2008.1</strong> and is based on Linux&nbsp;2.6.24. 
-    It was released on 7/19/2008 and includes plugins for the following
+    The current version of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is <strong>2008.2</strong> and is based on Linux&nbsp;2.6.24. 
+    It was released on 12/01/2008 and includes plugins for the following
     scheduling policies:
     </p>
     <ul>
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
    <h2 id="support">Support</h2>
     <div class="box">
     <p class="nomargin">
-    The LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> development effort is being supported by grants from
+    The LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> development effort is being supported by grants from, SUN Corp.,
     Intel Corp., IBM Corp., The National Science Foundation (grant CCR 0615197), and The U.S.
     Army Research Office (grant W911NF-06-1-0425).
     </p>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     </p>
     <ul>
     <li>
-        <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bbb/">Bj&ouml;rn B. Brandenburg</a>
+        <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bbb/">Bj&ouml;rn B. Brandenburg</a> (current maintainer)
     </li>
     <li> <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jmc/">John M. Calandrino</a>
     </li>
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     General Public License (GPL)</a>. 
     </p>
     <p>
-    The current release of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is 2008.1. 
+    The current release of LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> is 2008.2. 
     It  consists of our Linux kernel modifications in the form of
     a patch against Linux 2.6.24 and 
     <span class="src">liblitmus</span>, the user-space API for real-time tasks.
@@ -223,11 +223,36 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     <h3 class="relname">LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.2</h3>
     <div class="release">
     <p>
-         The next release is currently in preparation and will be released in 
-         early December for <a href="http://www.rtss.org">RTSS 2008</a>. 
-         It will contain numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. At this point,
-         please do not start new development efforts based on the previous 2008.1 version.
+         Based on Linux 2.6.24. Released in December 2008.
+
     </p>
+    <h4>Files:</h4>
+    <ul>
+         <li>
+                <a href="download/2008.2/litmus-rt-2008.2.patch">litmus-rt-2008.2.patch</a>
+         </li>
+         <li>
+                <a href="download/2008.2/liblitmus-2008.2.tgz">liblitmus-2008.2.tgz</a>
+         </li>
+         <li><a href="download/2008.2/SHA256SUMS">SHA256 check sums</a>
+         </li>
+    </ul>
+    <h4>Major changes (since LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.1):</h4> 
+         <ul>
+           <li>PFAIR implementation can now recover from missed tick interrupts.
+           </li>
+           <li>A bug in the PFAIR prioritization function was corrected.
+           </li>
+           <li>Support for synchronous task system releases in the EDF-based schedulers was fixed.
+           </li>
+           <li><span class="src">sched_trace()</span> support was re-implemented based on Feather-Trace.
+           </li>
+           <li>Added the tool <span class="src">showst</span> to liblitmus, which can convert <span class="src">sched_trace()</span> binary data to a human-readable format.
+           </li>
+           <li>
+             Assorted bug fixes.
+           </li>
+         </ul>
     </div>
   
     <h3 class="relname">LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> 2008.1</h3>
@@ -282,6 +307,7 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     </div>
 
 
+
     <h2 id="install">Installation</h2> 
     <div class="box"> 
     <p class="notopmargin">
@@ -310,12 +336,17 @@ cd $DIR
 # get Linux 2.6.24
 wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
 tar xjf linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2
-wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.1/litmus-rt-2008.1.patch
+wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.2/litmus-rt-2008.2.patch
 mv linux-2.6.24 litmus2008
 # apply the LITMUS RT patch
 cd litmus2008
-patch -p1 &lt; ../litmus-rt-2008.1.patch
-# create a working kernel configuration with HZ=1000
+patch -p1 &lt; ../litmus-rt-2008.2.patch
+# create a working kernel configuration
+#  - select HZ=1000
+#  - enable in-kernel preemptions
+#  - disable NO_HZ
+#  - don't use power management options like frequency scaling
+#  - disable support for group scheduling
 make menuconfig
 # compile the kernel
 make bzImage
@@ -325,7 +356,7 @@ make modules
 </pre>
     <p>
       When configuring the kernel, note that there is a menu (at the very end of the list) 
-      with LITMUS<sup>RT</sup>-specific configuration options.
+      with LITMUS<sup>RT</sup>-specific configuration options. For reference, <a href="download/2008.2/qemu-config">we provide a configuration that is known to work under QEMU</a>.
     </p>
 
     <h3>Libraries</h3>
@@ -338,8 +369,8 @@ make modules
     </p>
 <pre class="shell">
 cd $DIR
-wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.1/liblitmus-2008.1.tgz
-tar xzf liblitmus-2008.1.tgz
+wget http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/download/2008.2/liblitmus-2008.2.tgz
+tar xzf liblitmus-2008.2.tgz
 cd liblitmus 
 # change KERNEL_DIR in Makefile to point to the kernel source
 make