RE: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2900
rdicaire@vic.com
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 22:54:41 -0500 (EST)
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
>Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:49:27 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: The Basted Turkey Release (aka 2.1.130)
>
>Following hot on the heels of the greased weasel, the basted turkey rears
>its handsome head.
>
>The basted turkey release fixes some problems that our dear weasel had,
>namely:
> - NFS reference counting was wrong. It had been wrong for a long time,
> but apparently the more aggressively asynchronous code was more easily
> able to show the resultant random memory corruption. That should be
> gone.
> - The UP flu fixed officially (this has been in most of the 2.1.129
> patches)
> - kernel_thread() used to be able to cause bad things in init-routines at
> bootup. Fixed.
> - itimers could lead to bad things in SMP under heavy itimer load.
> - various mm tweaks to make it behave better under load. Things for dirty
> buffers still under consideration.
> - IP masqerading check fixes.
> - acenic gigabit ethernet driver
> - some drunken revelers fixed some MCA issues.
> - alpha PCI setup updates and video drivers
> - hfs and minix filesystem fixes.
>
>On the whole, an excellent thing to do this evening, and goes together
>remarkably well with some good red wine. Amaze your friends and relatives
>by completely ignoring them, sitting in a corner with your own basted
>turkey, and getting wasted on red wine. Much more fun than your average
>thanksgiving dinner,
Dinner went well, unfortunately compiling and running .130 didn't.
Unlike the 2.12x kernels, .130 wont even boot :(
Dies at kswapd with a "can't dereference NULL pointer..." error.
gcc 2.7.2.3 libc5
Can send more info at request.
Happy Thanksgiving :)
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