Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:54:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:54:54 -0400 Received: from mnh-1-21.mv.com ([207.22.10.53]:22024 "EHLO ccure.karaya.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:54:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200204082056.PAA03749@ccure.karaya.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: user-mode port 0.56-2.4.18-15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:56:59 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm breaking with my usual practice of tying full UML releases to major kernel releases. The intervals between successive 2.4.x kernels are getting too long for my taste. So, here's a second 2.4.18 UML. As usual, there are a ton of bug fixes in this release. Some of the more important ones are: The console flow control bug is now fixed. Flow control works properly both with and without Sapan Bhatia's tty output SIGIO fix. Fixed a crash caused by using a tty_struct after it had been freed when there was no getty on the main console. Daniel Phillips' pgtable fixes are in. Fixed a crash caused by installing cmucl. On older processors which don't implement the cmov instructions, UML likely would hang on starting init. Strictly speaking, this is not a UML bug. The bug was booting a filesystem that executes cmov. However, UML now detects cmov support in the host processor and panics with a useful message when it sees init get a SIGILL on a cmov. The real fix is to get a filesystem that's built for earlier processors than P6. Added SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM to the irq registration flags of some drivers. This makes apps which read /dev/random work a lot better. Randomness in UML is more problematic than on the host, but I chose a set of drivers whose interrupts shouldn't be too predictable. The signal mask is now initialized so that odd environments can't screw UML up by passing in bogus masks. The consoles and serial lines now support SIGWINCH. The ubd driver's COW bitmaps are now properly byte-swapped. UML is now robust in the face of tmpfs running out of space. HZ is now 52. The project's home page is http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net Downloads are available at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-sf.html Jeff - 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/