--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-267 2004-08-20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.8 Release : 1.521 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update kernel updates the Fedora Core 2 kernel to version 2.6.8. Included in this new upstream kernel are several fixes on the networking front, including traffic shaping and window scaling fixes. Note: This kernel includes several Execshield cleanups and changes, and as a result programs that make certain restrictive assumptions about the virtual address space (such as Wine) need a different workaround than before. The applications can get the old (legacy) VA layout via the setarch -L <application> option when a recent enough serarch application is in use, in addition there now is a global switch to go to the legacy VA layout: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sat Aug 14 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 - split execshield up some more * Sat Aug 14 2004 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update SCSI whitelist again with some more card readers. * Tue Aug 10 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.8-rc3-bk3 * Thu Aug 05 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> - Add the flex-mmap bits for s390/s390x (Pete Zaitcev) - Add flex-mmap for x86-64 32 bit emulation - 2.6.8-rc3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/ c6a6b494059f01e20f69be28e35d7c34 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.8-1.521.src.rpm c8414cca0d78754981e7f22e98dc3378 x86_64/kernel-2.6.8-1.521.x86_64.rpm 183e619084d567f95730f29c60974c7a x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.x86_64.rpm c9af2d7eaf18b507919a666ce31c083e x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.8-1.521.x86_64.rpm 1249d155d13f218a29a9630fca462b26 x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm 64d38986eb380f5a126435750bdb6143 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm 5a4cb0bdd3d1f9a477c40d8c94810c08 i386/kernel-2.6.8-1.521.i586.rpm a5f6c23c132494c058b65c400e0e8f7a i386/kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.i586.rpm f2c200606b2ebbea9cfdbed8165486ab i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.8-1.521.i586.rpm 0cc396210fec597d6440541a3bde5295 i386/kernel-2.6.8-1.521.i686.rpm 51155f6069b4d2b9831697e25ceb1fb3 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521.i686.rpm 01d3bdeb3f225098af29be2c1a512ef8 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.8-1.521.i686.rpm 1249d155d13f218a29a9630fca462b26 i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm 64d38986eb380f5a126435750bdb6143 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.8-1.521.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with yum or the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
