On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You know the drill by now: another week, another -rc. > > There's a lot of small stuff in here, most people won't even notice. The > most noticeable thing is for all you 32-bit x86 people who use PAE > (enabled by the HIGHMEM64G config option) due to having too much memory in > your machine - mprotect() was broken due to some of the PAT fix/cleanup > patches, causing the NX bit to be not set correctly. > > So if you had PAE enabled _and_ a recent enough CPU to have NX, but not > recent enough to be 64-bit (or you were just perverse and wanted to run a > 32-bit kernel despite having a chip that could do 64-bit and enough memory > that you _really_ should have used a 64-bit kernel), you'd get various > random program failures with SIGSEGV. It ranged from X not starting up to > apparently OpenOffice not working if it did. > > But most of the changes, as usual, are in drivers, at 60%, with some DRI > changes leading the way (fixing a number of other regressions, mainly by > reverting the under-cooked vblank update). Network, MMC, USB, watchdog and > IDE drivers also got updates. > > We had CIFS and NFS updates, and some arch updates as usual. The dirstat > gives the overview: > I have this patchsets collected from LKML, that still apply ontop of -rc4. Are they not so urgent or are they not needed any more ? JBD[2] races http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=121141319601650&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=121141319701660&w=2 libata EH timeout handling http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121121761530723&w=2 alignment in block DMA http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121125981930670&w=2 -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2008.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.23-jam05 (gcc 4.2.2 20071128 (4.2.2-2mdv2008.1)) SMP PREEMPT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
