2002-07-08 08:28:05

by J.A. Magallon

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Subject: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.19-rc1-jam1

Hi all...

After some travel, here is a new version.
I was wating for another -rc or -aa, but anyways, here is 2.4.19-rc1-jam1:

http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-rc1-jam1.tar.gz
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-rc1-jam1/

Current contents:

00-aa-rc1aa1.bz2
01-version.bz2

02-blk-dev-ram.bz2
Fix typo.

03-nfs-attr-cache.bz2
Fixes a bug in __nfs_refresh_inode() wrt to caches.
Author: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

04-nfs-lockd.bz2
Fix lockd oops.
Author: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

10-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 <[email protected]>, Robert Love <[email protected]>

11-mem-barriers.bz2
Use specific machine level instructions for mb() for new
processors (P3,P4,Athlon).
Author: Zwane Mwaikambo <[email protected]>

12-polsel-fasthpath.bz2
Speedup poll/select for the very common case when number of
descriptors is small.
Author: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

13-p2-split.bz2
Split PII from PPro in processor selection.
Change FOOF bug check compilation to a new flag.

14-gcc3-march.bz2
Add support for gcc3 code generation flags for specific processors

20-sched-hints.bz2
Hint-based scheduling on top of O1 scheduler.
Authonr: Robert Love <[email protected]>

30-shared-zlib.bz2
Use only one copy of zlib for whole kernel.
Authonr: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
URL: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dwmw2/linux-2.4.19-shared-zlib.bz2

40-ide-10.bz2
IDE update, version convert.10.
Author: Andre Hedrick <[email protected]>
URL: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/

41-severworks-ide.bz2
Attempt to fix the ServerWorks problem sit certain disks and DMA.
Author: Martin Wilck <[email protected]>

42-ide-cd-dma-3.bz2
Make reading audio from IDE CDROMs use DMA.
Author: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

50-e100-build.bz2
Attepmt to fix duplicate install of e100.o module in -aa.

51-e100-2.0.30-k1.bz2
Intel e100 driver update. -aa reverted to a previous one, due to some
bug reports.
Backported fron 2.5.

52-e1000-4.2.17-k1.bz2
Intel e1000 gigE driver.
Backported fron 2.5.

70-i2c-2.6.4-20020806.bz2
71-sensors-2.6.4-20020806.bz2
LM-Sensors update to 2.6.4-cvs tree.
URL: http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/

80-bproc-3.1.10.bz2
Beowulf bproc SSI patches+pid allocation race fix.
Author: Erik Arjan Hendriks <[email protected]>
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.


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Linux werewolf 2.4.19-rc1-jam1, Mandrake Linux 8.3 (Cooker) for i586
gcc (GCC) 3.1.1 (Mandrake Linux 8.3 3.1.1-0.7mdk)