Hi all...
New release of this patchset. Some overview of updates:
- new base on Andrea's -pre8-aa1
- ext3-0.9.19
- netdrv-8
- bproc-3.2.1
and the usual ton of bugfixes collected from LKML.
Get it at:
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.20-pre8-jam1.tar.gz
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.20-pre8-jam1/
and enjoy !!.
Full contents:
10-highpage-init.bz2
Cleanup one_highpage_init() as in 2.5.
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
11-memparam.bz2
Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
Leonardo Gomes Figueira <sabbath@planetarium.com.br>
12-clone-detached.bz2
Fix a crash that can be caused by a CLONE_DETACHED thread.
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
13-self_exec_id.bz2
Fix bad signaling between threads when ancestor dies.
Author: Zeuner, Axel <Axel.Zeuner@partner.commerzbank.com>
14-nfs-resend.bz2
Fix NFS stalls.
Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
15-module-size-checks.bz2
Fixes two minor bugs in kernel/module.c related with module size checks.
Author: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpapr@softhome.net>
16-handle2dentry.bz2
Factor out duplicated code for handle2dentry conversation.
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
17-cache-detection.bz2
Fix cache detection (trace cache) in P3s.
Author: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
18-scsi-error-tmout.bz2
Prevent endless loop in SCSI error handling.
Author: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
19-per-cpu-stats.bz2
Kill some per-cpu stats, not so often used.
Author: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
20-x86-split-group.bz2
Group common options under just one config option, and make them a bit
hierarchic.
Split PII from PPro in processor selection.
21-mem-barriers.bz2
Use specific machine level instructions for mb() for new
processors (P3,P4,Athlon).
Author: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
22-gcc3-march.bz2
Add support for gcc3 code generation flags for specific processors
23-config-nr_cpus.bz2
Configure the max number of cpus at compile time (default was 32).
Saves memory footprint for kernel (around 240Kb in 32->2).
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
30-smptimers-A0.bz2
Scalable timer implementation. Lock per-CPU instead of global.
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
URL: http://redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers-patches/
31-ext3-0.9.19.bz2
ext3 fs update.
Author: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
32-netdrv-8.bz2
Network driver subsystem update.
Author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
33-task_cpu.bz2
Implement "task_cpu()" and "set_task_cpu()" as wrappers for reading and
writing task->cpu. Optmize to dummy versions in UP.
Additional changes for Andrea's tree.
Author: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
34-sched-misc.bz2
O1 scheduler miscellaneous updates.
Author: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
40-sched-hints.bz2
Hint-based scheduling on top of O1 scheduler.
Author: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
41-corefile-name.bz2
This patch will allow you to configure the way core files are named through
the /proc filesystem.
Author: Jes Rahbek Klinke <jrk@evalesco.com>
50-ide-10-partial.bz2
IDE update, version convert.10. Partial because Promise driver is not
merged and is probably not functional.
Author: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
URL: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/
51-severworks-ide.bz2
Attempt to fix the ServerWorks problem sit certain disks and DMA.
Author: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com>
52-ide-cd-dma-3.bz2
Make reading audio from IDE CDROMs use DMA.
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
70-i2c-2.6.6-cvs.bz2
71-sensors-2.6.6-cvs.bz2
LM-Sensors update to 2.6.5-cvs tree.
URL: http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/
72-i2c-build.bz2
Add dmi_scan.o to export-objs.
75-bttv-0.7.97.bz2
76-bttv-doc-0.7.97.bz2
BTTV updates.
Author: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
URL: http://bytesex.org/bttv/
80-bproc-3.2.1.bz2
Beowulf bproc SSI patches.
Author: Erik Arjan Hendriks <erik@hendriks.cx>
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc
81-export-task_nice.bz2
Export task_nice() function for bproc.
90-make.bz2
Makes INSTALL_PATH=/boot and default VGA mode = 6.
-- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 Linux 2.4.20-pre8-jam1 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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