RC1: SLAB, RC2: SLUB (CONFIG_SLUB). SLAB is for general workload, but SLUB is set default in 2.6.32, it seems SLUB has been tested by developer
Disable CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP and number of CPU set to 8 (CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8)
Power and events based on /proc pseudofilesystem are activated, since we still use “stable” userland tools (CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y and CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y)
Set IPV6 to module (CONFIG_IPV6=m)
CD #2: linux-firmware-nonfree
Live
live-initramfs, backported from testing >=1.173
squashfs 4.0. this filesystem merged in 2.6.29(?) with 4.0 layout and it is not backward compatible, so we must use squashfs-tools 4.0 to generate 4,0 filesystem or we can't mount squashfs 3.x fs generated by squashfs-tools (stable)
Another union filesystem (aufs). Generate aufs module for the kernel version. Merged in 2.6.31(?)
Hardware detection with udev cold-plugging via live-initramfs +modules