Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Oct 16 14:59:49 UTC 2006
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1022
2006-10-16
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.18
Release : 1.2200.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:
This update rebases the kernel to the latest upstream stable
release (2.6.18.1)
Changelogs available upstream at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
Fedora specific changes detailed below.
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* Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.18.1
* Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- DWARF2 unwinder fixes.
- Various lockdep fixes.
- Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel.
* Sun Oct 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume.
* Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman)
- Disable PM_DEBUG
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com>
- utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Another day, another round of lockdep fixes.
- Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863)
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
- New GFS2 patch
* Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug
* Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- yet more lockdep fixes.
- Fix a problem with XFS & the inode diet patches.
- Fix rpc_pipefs umount oops
- Enable alternative TCP congestion algorithms.
* Tue Sep 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64.
- More lockdep fixes.
* Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- Make kernel packages own initrd files
* Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver
* Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Disable dgrs driver.
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- reiserfs: make sure all dentry refs are released before
calling kill_block_super
- Fix up some compile warnings
* Thu Sep 21 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- re-enable xen.
- update xen:
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34294:dc1d277d06e0
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36184:47c098fdce14
* xen-unstable changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354
- update xen HV to changeset: 11540:9837ff37e354
- xen HV printf rate limit (rostedt).
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.18
- i965 AGP suspend support.
- AGP x8 fixes.
* Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- updated xen configs to sync with rawhide ones (don't be afraid, xen0/xenU
still around).
- xen update.
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36109:eefcfd07d102
* linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
* xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Bring back 586smp
- Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra)
* Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3).
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- xen update:
* linux-2.6 changeset: 34228:ea3369ba1e2c
* linux-2.6-xen-fedora changeset: 36107:47256dbb1583
* linux-2.6-xen changeset: 22905:d8ae02f7df05
* xen-unstable changeset: 11460:1ece34466781ec55f41fd29d53f6dafd208ba2fa
* Sun Sep 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2
* Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5]
- Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128)
* Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver.
* Sat Sep 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.13
* Fri Sep 8 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.12
* Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- update to 2.6.17.11
* Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>
- update to 2.6.17.10«
* Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
- linux-2.6-xen update
* linux-2.6.17-xen cset changeset: 29033:e6adb54afb96
* linux-2.6-xen cset 22813:80c2ccf5c330
- s/xen_version/xen_hv_cset/ as Fedora.
- update xen hv to cset 11061.
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Mike Christie <mchristi at redhat.com>
- Drop iscsi update patch.
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.8
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix split lock patch for 64bit.
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5]
- 2.6.17.8rc1
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638)
* Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.7
* Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
- reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
- disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932)
* Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable serio_raw (#199387)
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again.
* Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.6
* Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Reenable SMC NIC driver.
* Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.4
- Disable split pagetable lock
* Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at 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 at 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 at 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 at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17.3
- 2.6.17.2
- Fix the ALSA list_add bug.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437)
- Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581)
* Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Enable profiling for 586 kernels.
* Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Make 'quiet' work again.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5]
- Rebuild with slab debug off.
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5]
- 2.6.17.1
* Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.17
- Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels.
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5]
- Add a PPC64 kdump kernel.
* Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5]
- 2.6.16.20
* Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Reenable Xen builds.
* Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.16.19
* Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333)
* Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Improve list corruption debugging patch.
* Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed.
* Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at 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/
def13c58a1c70f49333bcaf130c34495114e53d5 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.src.rpm
def13c58a1c70f49333bcaf130c34495114e53d5 noarch/kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.src.rpm
83b0504a5f407dab15845aa08b9aa7a0cf12b06d ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.ppc.rpm
6c0dcce3ba59eaece07cc24c5a5ec7d5f778ba39 ppc/kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.ppc.rpm
32e837b9f0354ef9e6b8dd84c8e49e24f5f46d01 ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.ppc.rpm
dd4c968c0a23818333ec6cc764be25d94942067c ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.ppc.rpm
ebb8d8ddec47ab313785a471002ad83c8df963de ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.ppc.rpm
259b08c1260f5f66eceff6a1a0121ad8b8272d44 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.noarch.rpm
636a17f22fc128e5f998f4e3ebd8e36b64eebf97 x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.x86_64.rpm
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a1dce14ede5241b541d964fdf54dd071f891a729 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i586.rpm
347484670777b65519e0cb7a8f1e772245244063 i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i586.rpm
7839f82c363350eb7c4f0bf4b7c615b4096dec58 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i586.rpm
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5dff99b376bb816729889dfbdba4bc71697a9f9f i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i586.rpm
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1774adc1018b50ac338360aef762046da5f42bb9 i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
df1a93eecb292cdba5393e46a9ad77afe248da35 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
8e569212da806fe4b4f296431bf39939e0d7d1ee i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
819f4db44d5b13e53fd1717e6ff28e66fbb89772 i386/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
0e65cd8629d242ec3055dd8ed7e0f75fdb756596 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
639c0c3d7cbf52db9248c42d17f0140aa9faaefc i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
d11686de846eaf522d44d774ea0b565fd0b6b3a9 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
50cccb696521314d1fc62f3dcb03088a2d189970 i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
1233986f8f96ba68903d996e365034935f58d020 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
7bc5277478d68e8da9a233457da013cf2189d277 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
cec131b81b8c75e2ace5db25b5e0020f214805e2 i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
e905fd1a6fd8fa408400fcd30c85ae69605011a8 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm
259b08c1260f5f66eceff6a1a0121ad8b8272d44 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2200.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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