Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:33:44 +0200 (EET) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Linux-2.1.10 |
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I just put up 2.1.10 on the ftp-sites. This one:
- fixes some of the glaring byte-at-a-time stuff in execve(), and uses a "strlen_user()" to get the length of arguments from user space instead of doing it one byte at a time. This is noticeable even on x86, but it should be _really_ noticeable on alpha and other architectures that have slow byte accesses. There are still other byte-at-a-time stuff, and I even have some patches for them that I've mislaid. I'll get to them (and whoever sent me patches, could you re-send? I'm not too proud to take advantage of work done by others, I'm just too disorganized ;) - this version _should_ work on alpha again, but as my network connection to my home alpha is down today (damn routers), I haven't been able to check that my modifications to the alpha "strlen_user()" actually compile and work. Feel free to send me feedback on that (and/or patches if required - even if it doesn't work it should at least be _close_). - floppy 64kB DMA bug hopefully fixed - cdrom updates: IDE cdrom patches and SCSI CD vendor-specific extension cleanups. - serial detection should be fine again - tulip driver update - advansys driver update - aha1542 should work again with 16MB+ memory, at least for disks (tape/cd probably doesn't work quite yet) - ext2 byte-order stuff (slowly integrating stuff needed for m68k and sparc). - networking fixes (check exception info etc)
Comments?
Linus
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