Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Nov 1996 13:19:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.25 and 2.1.8 |
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modules in 2.1.8 do not work for me whereas the insmod I have worked from 2.1.[0-7]... did something break?
--Jauder
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I released 2.0.25 yesterday (but ftp.funet.fi was down, so it showed up > there only an hour ago). The 25 release fixes > - the X slowdown of 24 > - the tulip.c problem > along with some other minor stuff (mostly some ide tape filemark > condition stuff). > > The 2.1.8 release is more "interesting", and the big thing here is the new > IPv6 code together with quite a number of cleanups for IPv4 (TCP > retransmissions are really done by TCP, not by the IP layer like they used to > be done). Thanks to Pedro for all the work on this. > > The new networking code can certainly have some problems, but hey, that's the > whole point with a development kernel. At least you shouldn't be bored by > testing it out (but you might: it's not exactly _unstable_ either, and it > might just turn out to work perfectly for everybody, who knows?). > > 2.1.8 also contains various other patches: > - ide code cleanups > - three instructions less in system calls ;) > - preliminary module exception handling stuff (but your insmod needs to > know about this all) > - exception 15 handling for those buggy PPro's (this is in 2.0.x too) > - AMD k5 divide overflow fix (this is in the 2.0 tree too) > - dead-Cedilla keyboard support ("the only good cedilla is a dead > cedilla"). This needs a new version of kbdtools to be useful. Also in > 2.0.x > > Tell me if you have problems, > > Linus >
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