Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2171_FC5

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Aug 7 21:33:07 UTC 2006


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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-898
2006-08-07
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.17
Release     : 1.2171_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 2.6.17.8rc1
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* 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/testing/5/

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1ba1db173d82beb94e83a32f7a79fc4e445d07a3  noarch/kernel-2.6.17-1.2171_FC5.src.rpm
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9320753350929e90cb0e2a5764211d43c78460fc  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.17-1.2171_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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