Fedora 17 Update: kernel-3.4.2-4.fc17
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Sun Jun 17 22:23:04 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9501
2012-06-15 23:08:14
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Name : kernel
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 3.4.2
Release : 4.fc17
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel
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:
The 3.4.2 stable update contains a number of bug fixes.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 13 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patches to fix NFS shutdown panic (rhbz 830862)
* Tue Jun 12 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- build in RTC modules on arm boards as the module gets loaded after the rtc is read
* Mon Jun 11 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add virtual provides for kernel-module to kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 770444)
- Add patch to fix xen domU 32bit (rhbz 829016)
- Add two upstream commits to fix flaky iwlwifi (rhbz 825491)
* Sat Jun 9 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> 3.4.2-1
- Linux v3.4.2
* Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable HV assisted KVM on ppc64
* Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Backport edid header fixup threashold patch from Adam Jackson (rhbz 582559)
* Wed Jun 6 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> 3.4.1-2
- add patch from calxeda to enable the highbank kernel to boot
- on real hardware
* Tue Jun 5 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- add patch to register omapdrm to the platforms so that we get
- working console framebuffer and X on panda and beagle boards
* Tue Jun 5 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org>
- Update ARM config options for 3.4
- Enable MTD/UBI/JFFS2 on ARM platforms
* Mon Jun 4 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> 3.4.1-1
- Linux v3.4.1
* Mon Jun 4 2012 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Disable 32bit NX emulation.
* Sat Jun 2 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.4.0-1
- Linux 3.4
- Stable queue updates
* Wed May 30 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- CVE-2012-2390 huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure (rhbz 824352 824345)
* Fri May 25 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at redhat.com>
- Don't manually customise tuners/frontends (rhbz 825203)
* Thu May 24 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- CVE-2012-2372 mm: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs populate SMP race (rhbz 822821 822825)
* Wed May 23 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
- drm-i915-lvds-dual-channel.patch: Scrape dual-channel-ness for LVDS out
of the VBT, rather than just making things up. (#819343)
* Mon May 21 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.3.7-1
- Linux 3.3.7
- Disable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 32bit builds. Turn back on for 3.4
* Fri May 18 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Additional fixes for CVE-2011-4131 (rhbz 822874 822869)
* Thu May 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix rtlwifi async firmware load race condition (rhbz 822120)
- Enable cpu_idle drivers for ppc64/pseries (requested by Ben Herrenschmidt)
* Wed May 16 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- set arch for arm kernel to VEXPRESS allows v7 emulation
- enable SMP everywhere but disable on kirkwood as its up only
* Wed May 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.3.6-3
- fix rtl8187: ->brightness_set can not sleep (rhbz 795176)
* Wed May 16 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Update the vgaarb patches to pick up a small switcheroo fix from airlied
* Tue May 15 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- add patch to setup usb correctly on beagleboards
- allows networking to work
* Tue May 15 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fixup atl1c register programming (rhbz 749276)
* Mon May 14 2012 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.3.6-1
- Linux 3.3.6
* Mon May 14 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Enable DRM_VIA again per Adam Jackson
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #830862 - Kernel panic at reboot (possibly NFS related).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830862
[ 2 ] Bug #770444 - RFE: kernel-modules-extra should get added to installonlypkgs default list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770444
[ 3 ] Bug #829016 - kernel 3.4.0-1 does not boot on xen domU, unable to handle kernel paging request
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829016
[ 4 ] Bug #825491 - kernel 3.4.0 iwlwifi flaky
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825491
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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