Re: Linux-1.3.65

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:29:34 -0700


>>>>> On Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:52:04 +0200, Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi> said:

Linus> I made a 1.3.65 release just a few moments ago. This release
Linus> does
Linux> - various alpha updates

More details on this:

- lots more syscalls: there shouldn't be any syscalls missing anymore;
not all of it has been tested yet, but it's there---give them
a shot and let me know if (and how) things break; in particular
setdomainname and the stuff requested by the Debian folks is
there now

- support for Kenetics Platform 2000 (Zeus motherboard with
Thor engine card) added

- various fixes to bios32.c (contributed by a number of people)

- modules should work (but be sure to apply my Alpha specific patch
on ftp.azstarnet.com)

- NCR scsi now sanitizes the hostid to 7 if it reads out as 0
(hi Jay, I'm sure you'll like this! :-)

- a few minor patches to get the sounddriver to compile cleanly
on the Alpha (no functional changes, though)

- fixed ATOMIC_INCR() etc in route.h (and associated variables)

There are still a bunch of "volatile char" and "volatile short"
declarations in some of the networking header files that make me
nervous (since the current Alpha chips can't write those atomically).
I sent mail to Alan about those and hope to hear back soon (I haven't
actually seen any problems but I assume they are declared volatile for
a reason).

--david