Hi all.
New release.
Main changes:
- updated to -rc3-aa1
- some changes to the processor selection config
- corefile names
- final sensors 2.6.4
- I have dropped the irqrate patch to the end of the list so you can skip
it without disturbing the rest of patches of applying cleanly. I really
do not trust it. It gave performance gains, but it hangs my box on rmmod.
Some small bits of it have gone into -aa tree (expect better net latency ?)
URL:
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-rc3-jam1.tar.gz
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.19-rc3-jam1/
Enjoy !!
Detailed contents:
00-rc3-aa1.bz2
-aa tree patch. You can omit this if you already have the matching tree.
Author: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
URL: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4
01-version.bz2
EXTRAVERSION
10-init-task-union.bz2
Kill one extra initializer for task struct (present in -aa and -ac, not
-rc)
11-module-size-checks.bz2
Fixes two minor bugs in kernel/module.c related with module size checks.
Author: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]>
12-ide-probe-special.bz2
ide-probe fix.
Author: Erik Andersen <[email protected]>
13-memparam.bz2
Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
Author: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>,
Leonardo Gomes Figueira <[email protected]>
14-kbuild-dead-var.bz2
CONFIG_DRM_AGP is neither defined nor used.
Author: Keith Owens <[email protected]>
20-x86-foof-bug.bz2
Introduce a config/feature _X86_ option for f00f, instead of have it
depend implicitly on Mx86 flags.
Author: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
21-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.
22-mem-barriers.bz2
Use specific machine level instructions for mb() for new
processors (P3,P4,Athlon).
Author: Zwane Mwaikambo <[email protected]>
23-gcc3-march.bz2
Add support for gcc3 code generation flags for specific processors
24-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]>
30-smptimers-A0.bz2
Scalable timer implementation. Lock per-CPU instead of global.
Author: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
URL: http://redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers-patches/
31-nr_requests.bz2
Make Randy happy ;):
"One thing I'd like to see -jam try is nr_requests = 256 in
drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c."
40-sched-hints.bz2
Hint-based scheduling on top of O1 scheduler.
Authonr: Robert Love <[email protected]>
41-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
42-corefile-name.bz2
This patch will allow you to configure the way core files are named through
the /proc filesystem You can specify patterns, e.g. "core.%p" to get pid
appended, "%e.core" to get the name of the executable, or
"/var/core/core.%h" to get all yor core files in /var/core and have the
hostname appended.
Author: Jes Rahbek Klinke <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
URL: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/
51-severworks-ide.bz2
Attempt to fix the ServerWorks problem sit certain disks and DMA.
Author: Martin Wilck <[email protected]>
52-ide-cd-dma-3.bz2
Make reading audio from IDE CDROMs use DMA.
Author: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
60-bttv-01-0.7.92.bz2
61-btaudio-01.bz2
BTTV updates.
Author: Gerd Knorr <[email protected]>
URL: http://bytesex.org/bttv/
70-i2c-2.6.4.bz2
71-sensors-2.6.4.bz2
LM-Sensors update to 2.6.4-final 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.
95-irqrate-A1.bz2
IRQ-rate-limiting. Adds the dynamic hard-IRQ-limiting feature and fixes
softirq performance.
Author: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
URL: http://redhat.com/~mingo/irqrate-patches/
--
J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: It's better when it's free
mailto:[email protected] \ -- Linus Torvalds, FSF T-shirt
Linux werewolf 2.4.19-rc3-jam1, Mandrake Linux 9.0 (Cooker) for i586
gcc (GCC) 3.1.1 (Mandrake Linux 8.3 3.1.1-0.10mdk)