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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-906
2006-08-10
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.17
Release : 1.2174_FC5
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.
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Update Information:
An update to the latest upstream -stable release (2.6.17.8)
Changelogs at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.8
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.7
Fedora specific changes listed below.
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* Mon Aug 7 2006 Mike Christie <mchristi(a)redhat.com>
- Drop iscsi update patch.
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.8
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix split lock patch for 64bit.
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5]
- 2.6.17.8rc1
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638)
* Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.7
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Enable serio_raw (#199387)
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again.
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.6
* Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reenable SMC NIC driver.
* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock
* Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com>
- enable CONFIG_CRASH on xen kernels.
- enable CONFIG_PCIDEV_BACKEND on xen kernels.
- make BLKDEV_FRONTEND a module on xen kernels.
- rebase with linux-2.6-xen-fedora 28918.
- Update to xen-unstable HV cset 10508.
- xen: credit scheduler is the default now.
* Wed Jul 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Get rid of stack backtrace on panic, which in most
cases actually caused a loss of info instead of a gain.
* Tue Jul 4 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com>
- new merge with xen upstream.
- xen kernel don't require xen userland.
- new xen kernel (same as rawhide one) with PAE support.
- removed xen0-PAE & xenU-PAE (see xen kernel).
* Fri Jun 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.3
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix the ALSA list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437)
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.
* Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Make 'quiet' work again.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5]
- Rebuild with slab debug off.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5]
- 2.6.17.1
* Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17
- Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels.
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]
- Add a PPC64 kdump kernel.
* Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5]
- 2.6.16.20
* Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reenable Xen builds.
* Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.19
* Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333)
* Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Improve list corruption debugging patch.
* Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed.
* Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com>
- Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
c921b8e7d6302f5a562d47a807d851cb1b8217c6 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
c921b8e7d6302f5a562d47a807d851cb1b8217c6 noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
1dcc10c37d89a26cb1544bdb3b79f7a1b62a29c8 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.ppc.rpm
89a56197603b81e4fbbcbc4894cc79b28373f971 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.ppc.rpm
cc715461dd37da2463226f40cf57182b79b4fb09 ppc/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.ppc.rpm
c03096251444b443bd9d742d41270a8f0cf2e449
ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.ppc.rpm
83977f6dba63d09b38424de836bb459eb962eb1d ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.ppc.rpm
ae2c358d17c76cdf27f2d3252d6ddc9c238b45a7 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.noarch.rpm
d43b9d81e7ded8a1fea085fbdd1e37ddf2d42c7c
x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
e8790c896bc9cc0bf2cae0b1115c702624655938
x86_64/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
bb16033d5ca5cd2dcd4a05a3e8797677cb4b5e8e x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
ee865c9c6620569e4a7a6c53bcb39643f9e1e0eb x86_64/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
8de58e37ab81de2e8e7534b85716bff62cf1dfcb
x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
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x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
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x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
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x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
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8bcc5759b64931df049dff17a9ffde49d03fe9ae
x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
cdffcdb1055a47f2e7b9170be16d9f2accefc859 x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.x86_64.rpm
ae2c358d17c76cdf27f2d3252d6ddc9c238b45a7 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.noarch.rpm
42855a8b0434b56fe46d3c1850be96e1f37cee82 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i586.rpm
d42c09bc80550e8c4f4474fd4f0cbc97c20d4602 i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i586.rpm
d66e9d30a418703f507b0f94aabbf846e02c5e94
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i586.rpm
73cd5aaa480e4d001763d0b399648ac26c002070
i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
558c3014685f3ec8805adac590d5a45d2e9320aa
i386/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
206220e4045a6f16f877bcc354ded20fadb14a21 i386/kernel-xen-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
8777f9eed7b39511f1b392ab5b360c27efd05015 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
67fc1678722e22cd0b4aa775899724a91e24a2df
i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
8767b5af9e8de7ea0e90de133fd3a84fc0937980 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
8bcc33edb68aff951b022a63e0a3618d6a43c29e
i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
edf9d49a159a3b8299d5b5bd19acca21a8ec56cb i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
cf036140cc9bdae934418332cab1275a3282388a
i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
ed2f1c8a4930b3c54aae1f9490fe58d68fbb607b i386/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
790900bfa6b2d516851a5e11abe9301ddc897884 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
4638ecafb03813b804c9734e585d26936519908e
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
d8bfc1a4b9db5d1d3c960c0ba9fa558b237e99eb i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686.rpm
ae2c358d17c76cdf27f2d3252d6ddc9c238b45a7 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.noarch.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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