On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:51:29PM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > The biggest change in this kernel over the older ones > > that affects all x86 users, is that the 4g/4g > > memory split is no longer the default. If you > > have a lot of memory (16GB or more), or have a workload > > that benefits from being able to have more address > > space, you can use the -hugemem kernel to run with > > 4g/4g again. The regular non-hugemem kernels have > > the traditional 3:1 split. > > Is the fix for the b44 issue > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165) > incorporated into the kernels yet? yes. I actually trimmed too much of the changelog. There's another few days of changes that went in. > Also, does the change in the 4g/4g status influence the b44 fix? In that the bug only affects -hugemem. So it's doubly fixed 8) Dave * Mon Nov 22 2004 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update -ac patch to 2.6.9-ac11 - make tulip_stop_rxtx() wait for DMA to fully stop. (#138240) - ACPI: Make LEqual less strict about operand types matching. - scsi: avoid extra 'put' on devices in __scsi_iterate_device() (#138135) - Fix bugs with SOCK_SEQPACKET AF_UNIX sockets - Reenable token ring drivers. (#119345) - SELinux: Map Unix seqpacket sockets to appropriate security class - SELinux: destroy avtab node cache in policy load error path. - AF_UNIX: Serialize dgram read using semaphore just like stream. - lockd: NLM blocks locks don't sleep - NFS lock recovery fixes - Add more MODULE_VERSION tags (#136403) - Update qlogic driver to 2.6.10rc2 level. - cciss: fixes for clustering - ieee802.11 update. - ipw2100: update to ver 1.0.0 - ipw2200: update to ver 1.0.0 - Enable promisc mode on ipw2100 - 3c59x: reload EEPROM values at rmmod for needy cards - ppc64: Prevent sigsuspend stomping on r4 and r5 - ppc64: Alternative single-step fix. - fix for recursive netdump oops on x86_64 - ia64: Fix IRQ routing fix when booted with maxcpus= (#138236) - ia64: search the iommu for the correct size - Deal with fraglists correctly on ipv4/ipv6 output - Various statm accounting fixes (#139447) - Reenable CMM /proc interface for s390 (#137397) * Fri Nov 19 2004 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - e100: fix improper enabling of interrupts. (#139706) - autofs4: allow map update recognition - Various TCP fixes from 2.6.10rc - Various netlink fixes from 2.6.10rc - [IPV4]: Do not try to unhash null-netdev nexthops. - ppc64: Make NUMA map CPU->node before bringing up the CPU (#128063) - ppc64: sched domains / cpu hotplug cleanup. (#128063) - ppc64: Add a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE hotplug CPU notifier (#128063) - ppc64: Register a cpu hotplug notifier to reinitialize the scheduler domains hierarchy (#128063) - ppc64: Introduce CPU_DOWN_FAILED notifier (#128063) - ppc64: Make arch_destroy_sched_domains() conditional (#128063) - ppc64: Use CPU_DOWN_FAILED notifier in the sched-domains hotplug code (#128063) - Various updates to the SCSI midlayer from 2.6.10rc. - vlan_dev: return 0 on vlan_dev_change_mtu success. (#139760) - Update Emulex lpfc driver to v8013 - Fix problem with b44 driver and 4g/4g patch. (#118165) - Prevent oops when loading aic79xx on machine without hardware. (#125982) - Use correct spinlock functions in token ring net code. (#135462) - scsi: Add reset ioctl capability to ULDs - scsi: update ips driver to 7.10.18 - Reenable ACPI hotplug driver. (#139976, #140130, #132691)