--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1402 2006-12-06 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.18 Release : 1.2254.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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: An update to the upstream stable release 2.6.18.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.4 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.5 Fedora specific changes listed below. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Dec 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.18.5 - Disable auto-apic patch, it needs more thought. - Enable sonypi driver for 586 kernels. (#218434) * Tue Nov 21 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update xen to 2.6.18.3. * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36186:053cdad40903 * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75 * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814 * Mon Nov 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.18.3 - Fix CIFS mount failure when domain not specified (#211753) - Avoid null pointer dereference in SATA Promise. (#199142) * Fri Nov 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up fallout from disabling utrace. * Fri Nov 17 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - merge xen missing bits from FC6 kernel. * Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up error handling in HFS. (MOKB-14-11-2006) * Thu Nov 16 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - Update xen HV to 3.0.3_0 (cset 11774). - Update xen kernel patch to 3.0.3_0: * linux-2.6.18-xen changeset: 36182:c6ef4b521aef * xen-3.0.3-testing changeset: 11774:52ae8dd4bc75 * linux-2.6-xen-3.0.3 changeset: 22949:4281f5246814 * Thu Nov 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix squashfs corruption bug. (#211237) - Drop experimental utrace from FC5. * Fri Nov 10 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - disable XEN_FRAMEBUFFER & XEN_KEYBOARD. * Fri Nov 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Xen grant table operations security fix. - Disable W1 (#195825) * Thu Nov 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Change HZ to 1000 for increased accuracy. (Except in Xen, where it stays at 250 for now). - TTY locking fixes. - splice : Must fully check for FIFO - Fix potential NULL dereference in sys_move_pages - ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service CVE-2006-5757 - Fix up oops in cramfs when encountering corrupt images. - E1000 suspend/resume fixes. - Set CIFS preferred IO size. (#214607) * Mon Nov 6 2006 Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> - New utrace patch: fix locking snafu crash on second engine attach. * Sun Nov 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Suspend/Resume fixes for forcedeth. (#187653) * Sat Nov 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.18.2 * Thu Nov 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Nuke broken lazy execshield xen patch. - Use heuristics to determine whether to enable lapic on i386. * Wed Nov 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.18.2-rc1 * Tue Oct 31 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix UFS mounts on x86-64 (#209921) - Fix problem where USB storage isn't seen on reboot. (#212191) * Sun Oct 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - More ext3 robustness fixes. - Include more verbose BUG() data - x86_64: Fix up C3 timer latency. * Sat Oct 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Reenable NCPFS (#211325, #203663) - Netpoll fixes. (#199295) * Fri Oct 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix autofs creating bad dentries in NFS mount. (#211206, #211207) - Fix softlockup with ips driver. (#196437) - Further exec-shield improvements. - Fix lockup with sky2 driver. (#202203) * Thu Oct 19 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Export copy_4K_page for ppc64 (#211410) - Attempt to fix CIFS bug (#211070) * Wed Oct 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up aic7xxx SBLKCTL register handling (#211251) - Disable SECMARK by default. (#211115) - Disable some extra debugging stuff that crept in. - Remove broken VIA quirk that prevented booting on some EPIAs (#211298) * Tue Oct 17 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Silence noisy boot-time messages. (#180606) - Workaround gcc bug with weak symbols (#191458) - Don't let speedstep-smi register on mobile Pentium4 (#204477) * Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix jbd crash with 1KB block size filesystems. * Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.18-1.2200.fc5] - 2.6.18.1 * Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - DWARF2 unwinder fixes. - Various lockdep fixes. - Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel. * Sun Oct 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume. * Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman) - Disable PM_DEBUG * Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> - utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Another day, another round of lockdep fixes. - Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> - New GFS2 patch * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug * Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64. - More lockdep fixes. * Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx> - Make kernel packages own initrd files * Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> - Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver * Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Disable dgrs driver. * Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.18 - i965 AGP suspend support. - AGP x8 fixes. * Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - Bring back 586smp - Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra) * Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3). * Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2 * Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5] - Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128) * Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver. * Sat Sep 9 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.13 * Fri Sep 8 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.12 * Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx> - update to 2.6.17.11 * Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> - update to 2.6.17.10« * Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - Drop iscsi update patch. * Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.8 * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix split lock patch for 64bit. * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5] - 2.6.17.8rc1 * Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs * Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638) * Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.7 * Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> - reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> - disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Enable serio_raw (#199387) * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again. * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.6 * Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Reenable SMC NIC driver. * Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.4 - Disable split pagetable lock * Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17.3 - 2.6.17.2 - Fix the ALSA list_add bug. * Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437) - Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581) * Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Enable profiling for 586 kernels. * Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Make 'quiet' work again. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5] - Rebuild with slab debug off. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5] - 2.6.17.1 * Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.17 - Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels. * Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5] - Add a PPC64 kdump kernel. * Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5] - 2.6.16.20 * Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Reenable Xen builds. * Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.16.19 * Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333) * Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Improve list corruption debugging patch. * Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed. * Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> - Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/ 9ff16a66563e693c1a2e179fa71fb3a60e1e1ecb SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.src.rpm 9ff16a66563e693c1a2e179fa71fb3a60e1e1ecb noarch/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.src.rpm 7e56ca3e2ebec16d20ef677897bfc39efe2cae8f ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.ppc.rpm 78b0da72d75c527b24fc07826f4067474138b392 ppc/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.ppc.rpm 8c714b3cc21680acd2abf174b25496fda14279e9 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.ppc.rpm 2cfe0738f19d299ef087131e94ef34ac8c300302 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.ppc.rpm 9cc9b1001fd0a5de1f67ffef70af733c546aff66 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.ppc.rpm 4e6297446367ed4fbe36f7199357d606a4815728 ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.noarch.rpm 3b4848ddadcc541547d04f848f4e27bb9f6c89eb x86_64/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 96f5d98aa6d545c14021acb5e32ad73882b07de3 x86_64/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 695f6580989391d14771557cf5124096b9a0a0b9 x86_64/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm a631f16d7c1f17632188f28f6e956556ca554237 x86_64/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 0ae907344bb2b05afbc503ef7c1f0f8eccff0b62 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 86b39222ce739db2af11e9d40608b4480a05f8b2 x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm fe9bdbc24d0f1ccbaf3602e86361178685b2dda3 x86_64/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm dcf1f6efc8559da236c6e43b1e74a76d03b7eedc x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 274757f3378080b3347909e904cd95e63f8b83e0 x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 0606a55bece6de89d405eff2c9e0e854fa464455 x86_64/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm ace2be7d2f88ba281d6d0ef2340dd91036978596 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.x86_64.rpm 4e6297446367ed4fbe36f7199357d606a4815728 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.noarch.rpm f111abed4bc4009b9ab1dfaba2af59e198017918 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i586.rpm a8cf46cdaf7f387f6a00ba32c63a1dcf76a6335c i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i586.rpm c41571ee12ba0b22f3254e0d4d53003f567632e8 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i586.rpm ffdd85b1b82c29f3b150995315616e43bac9a96b i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i586.rpm 77409456bbf18ea293f0b93b1e7f9390321cca0f i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i586.rpm 536c6a5cd35c46db035db0f9fb5c6a1c47552326 i386/kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 9229e55ebc1fbb33c957988a6a291d7d912a6f61 i386/kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 81b4227b98e7e284d9731f1457758d287b27e773 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 8ac72a4165ad15e5bff3579e0bbb065a148520e7 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm accf4527afdf3e3b42964dfaf1da847c862cc9a4 i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm f476bbed25a50fd5e6ffde32d6da91636e3d720c i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm abc4c265273f8effb1459b3d1e61ef2c60630778 i386/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm bc12686d5a274e1f93f5944e1cd2ed8ce2dd6d70 i386/kernel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 63234d073306670a2cf7c7e9079693d16f466c3d i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 0352a1919cba72a6fcc913c27a933627449dc713 i386/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 6ecc686705c0ca683aa7f26cfccde1a333d7e049 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm c3a4d5566567f586e2bbfa37661711d9026d4357 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 49dc0476e350e2d2016f221f759aa0cf2d9e885b i386/kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2254.fc5.i686.rpm 4e6297446367ed4fbe36f7199357d606a4815728 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2254.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/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list