Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: Patch: 2.0.37pre4 | Date | Mon, 28 Dec 1998 01:36:19 -0500 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 1:09 AM Subject: Patch: 2.0.37pre4
> >* Note: There's a weirdness about 2.0.37pre kernels which appears to be related >* to some older versions of binutils. If your kernel locks as it boots please >* mail me your binutils version (ld -v). It appears at the moment to affect >* a small number of people only, so Im guessing its an unusual binutils >* species. >* >* With binutils 2.9.1.0.12 life seems to be ok. I'd like to pin down the >* problem ones to be sure it is a binutils problem. >* > > >2.0.37pre4 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre3 > >o IDE updates (Andrew Balsa, Andre Hedrick and co)
Does this include Ultra DMA or Bus Mastering for chipsets other than Intel's
> | This should now get big disks the right size for one > | Also blacklists apparent problem WDC drives > | Test heavily >o Compaq SmartRAID support (Compaq) >o DC390 updated (Kurt Garloff) >o TIOCSBRK (Uwe Bonnes) >o EPIC update (Don Becker) >o Build with PROCFS=n (Hans-Joachim Baader) >o ISOfs handle more icky cds (Ulrik Dickow) >o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) >o PARIDE update (grant) >o Config for memory cleaned (me, Riley, others) > >2.0.37pre3 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre2 > >o Nasty cache bug fixed (Mikael Pettersson) > | Quake should work again now. >o NCR53c8xx update (Gerard Roudier) >o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) >o Initio driver update (Bas) >o Dumb sound bug cured (Oleg Drokin) >o Lance multidetect fix (Orc) >o Miscellaneous cleanup/small fixes > (Hans-Joachim Baader, Scott, Riley > and others) > >2.0.37pre2 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre1 > >o ACard SCSI driver (ACard) >o Initio SCSI update (Initio) >o Tulip driver update (Don Becker) >o Add new SMC card to PCI (Andrew Pam) >o DVD may have >800Mb files (Ulrich Habel) >o Readv/writev mand lock fix (Jamie Lokier) >o Support for 2Gig/3Gig machines (Ingo/Leonard) > | Im not sure quite if Ingo's patch is based on Leonards or whatever > | Also if you use 2Gig or 3Gig you are shrinking the per process > | address space. So dont do it casually. >o Fix protocol bug in IGMP2 code (Julian Highfield) >o Floppy diver update (Alain Knaff) > >2.0.37pre1 includes the following changes over 2.0.36 > >o Serial supports a couple of PCI cards (Henning Schmiedehausen) >o Tekram (DC390T) update (Kurt Garloff) >o DAC960 beta driver (Leonard Zubkoff) >o Slow A20 gate fix (Leonard Zubkoff) >o Keyboard race fix >o 3c59x updated (Don Becker) >o DEPCA updated (Don Becker) >o EEPro100 updated (Don Becker) >o RTL8139 updated (Don Becker) >o Initio 91XX driver (Initio, arranged by SuSE) >o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) >o ICMP include symbol fix >o Bridge port change fix (Vova Oksman) >o PPTP masquerading > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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