Lista contendo as atualizações do Kernel 2.0.36
Achei interessante colocar esta mensagem enviada por Linus Torvalds, que
contém as atualizações do Kernel 2.0.36, para que voces possam verificar se
as atualizações contidas nele são importantes para voce atualizar seu
Kernel 2.0.34 para esta versão.
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Linux 2.0.36 patch - patch-2.0.36.gz (15-Nov-98)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Linux-2.0.36..
Is out there.
I won't claim any false credit for this: all the 2.0.x work was
done by Alan Cox as the maintainer, and the 2.0.36 that is out
there is exactly the same as Alan's "pre-22" version that he
asked people to check out. He just asked me to "sprinkle some
holy penguin-pee on it" to bless it and make it official. This I
have done (*).
2.0.36 is a lot of updates, mostly to various drivers. ISDN,
various SCSI drivers and network cards have been updated quite
heavily. ISDN to the degree that you need to make sure you have
the most recent tools in order to play well with it.
Have fun,
Linus
(*) This, btw, is not something I would suggest you do in your
living room. Getting a penguin to pee on demand is _messy_. We're
talking yellow spots on the walls, on the ceiling, yea verily
even behind the fridge.
However. I would also advice against doing this outside - it may
be a lot easier to clean up, but you're likely to get reported
and arrested for public lewdness. Never mind that you had a
perfectly good explanation for it all.
Here are the Release Notes from Alan Cox (who put together the 2.0.36
release for Linus):
Bug Fixes
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Large Memory
Linux 2.0.36 uses the newer bios calls to automatically size
memory above 64Mbytes,
where supported by the BIOS. A maximum of just under 1Gig is
available for Linux
2.0.36.
Readv/Writev
Processes issuing a readv or writev to a device that did not have
the relevant read/write
operation could cause an Oops and potentially a crash.
UDMA Drives
Report Bad CRC (cable errors) as a cable error. Handling of such
errors was correct.
TCP spoofing
A very obscure TCP spoofing attack is now blocked. As far as we
know only the lab
who discovered it are aware of the problem, and no active use of
such attack has ever
been seen on the internet.
SMP
A pair of SMP bugs have been fixed. The first resolves the
instabilities with 3+ CPU
machines, the second resolves an IRQ forwarding problem that
caused "Re-entering
IRQ" hangs. SMP should be significantly more stable on 2.0.36
than previous 2.0.x
releases.
pipe syscall error
The pipe call could return ENFILE not -1 and errno= -ENFILE.
Fixed.
AIC7xxx
The 2.0.36 kernel contains the 5.1.4 release of the AIC7xxx
driver. This should cure
most of the remaining problems with the older chipsets. Users
with the latest AIC7xxx
devices will have to wait for the next driver version to become
available or try the beta
test driver.
Procfs permissions fix
A process with root file rights can now read all /proc files.
Daylight Savings in SMB
The SMB file system honours daylight savings time.
EATA SCSI/Ultrastor 14f/34f
Reverse scan order support and configurable extended geometry.
Increased the busy
timeout.
IN2000 SCSI
This driver now works in SMP mode.
Build fixes
Use relative paths for sound, remove trampoline.hex on a make
clean, support the
newer versioned symbols as part of a multi object file module.
Oops handling
A small fencepost error in Oops handling on syscall return has
been cured.
TLan 1.0
The Thunderlan driver has been updated to the 1.0 release.
Delay loops
The delay loop code has been modified to eliminate most of the
remaining
cache/branch prediction and other variants to its performance.
5.25" floppy
An incorrect floppy table entry has been altered, and a potential
crash on unload fixed.
Iomega ZIP driver
Handle 23.D firmware funnies.
Cyclades Serial
Upgraded driver from vendor, with assorted bugs fixed.
Printer Driver
The correction in the printer handling upset the Epson Stylus
800. The driver know has
a LPSTRICT option that can be set for printers that need absolute
strict NBUSY
handling.
Beeper gets stuck
The case where the beeper decides to beep forever has been cured.
3c509 ethernet
Upgraded to v1.16. Fixes ID port clash with sound cards, waiting
for discard
messages and recovers faster from transmit errors.
3c59x driver
Updated 3c59x ethernet driver. This should cure the skb_push
panics some people
saw with 3c59x/3c90x drivers under load.
Lance driver
Module unload bugs in the lance driver have been fixed.
Plip driver
Messages without severity levels now have appropriate levels.
AHA1542
Allow the use of DMA 0 on newer motherboards.
SHM swap off
A case where the machine might crash when turning swapping off
has been fixed.
MMAP security
Linux did not allow a writable mmap of an append only file. It
did however allow a
readonly mmap of such a file then an mprotect. Fixed.
NAKAMICH MJ-5.16S
This SCSI device has been added to the blacklist.
Single lun blacklisting
A bug in the single lun blacklisting has been fixed.
SCSI CAM division by zero
A corrupt geometry could cause the kernel to divide by zero and
crash.
Sound blaster
Don't report a DMA channel 0 for the MPU
Sequencer
If there are no synths or midi devices do not lock the sequencer
busy forever.
Autofs
Fix a small glitch in the directory hash.
ISOfs
Fix a fencepost error in the iso fs size checks.
Vfat fs
Disallow periods at the end of names.
NFS file system
Support FIFO's over NFS. Handle kill of nfsiod for module unload.
NFS root
IFF_MULTICAST could be incorrectly not set.
Non modular soundmodem/baycom
These devices only worked as modules. They now work compiled in.
Memory leak in networking
A very obscure leak in the networking code has been fixed.
TCP select
TCP select for urgent data now has correct semantics. Previously
it could do the wrong
thing.
TCP SIGIO
SIGIO on an incoming connection is now correctly issued on the
completion of the
three way handshake.
Crash on powerdown
When APM was enabled but not present, and APM power off was
enabled the kernel
could crash at the end of the shutdown sequence.
Alpha NTP
The Alpha uses a 1024Hz clock and this threw off some values used
for NTP
calibration.
Enhancements
ISDN
The Isdn4linux layer is signifcantly upgraded. The new driver set
adds support for the
Teles 16.3c, Teles PCI, Teles S0Box, Creatix S0Box, Compaq ISDN
S0 ISA, ELSA
Quickstep 1000PCI, Elsa Quickstep 3000, Elsa Quickstep 3000PCI,
Eicon.Diehl
Diva 2.0 ISA/PCI (not Pro), Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola, AsusCom
ISDNLink 128K,
Dynalink IS64PH, HFC-2BS0 based cards, Sedlbauer Speed Card(Speed
win,
teledat 100), Sedlbauer Speed Star PCMCIA, USR Sportster Internal
TA, ITH MIC
16 ISA, Traverse NETjet PCI, Niccy PnP/PCI
ICP Vortex
The ICP vortex driver supports the latest ICP raid cards up to
and including fibre
channel.
AMI MegaRAID
Driver support for the AMI MegaRAID SCSI controller.
Shaper
The shaper device provides a simple traffic limiting driver for
Linux 2.0.x. For full traffic
shaping watch for Linux 2.2 coming soon..
Tulip
The tulip driver has been upgraded to 0.89H which should also
support the clone
PNIC and MXIC tulip devices.
Extended CPUID/Chip identification
The Cyrix/AMD extended CPUID mode is supported. Cyrix processors
are identified
even when CPUID is not available. The Intel Celeron Mendocino is
recognized. K6's
with the random oops bug are normally now detected. The K6 cpu
deadlock problem
isn't detected as we know no way to check for it except to try
it.
Multi-Tech driver
Driver for multi-tech 4/8 port modem and serial
cards.(Experimental).
EtherExpress
The Compaq LTE should now be recognized (experimental)
Intel 440GX
The 440GX chipset is known to the PCI data tables.
Nvidia
NVidia/SGS Thomson is known to the PCI data tables.
SCSI medium changers
These are no long reported as unknown device types.
ROSE networking
The ROSE network layer has been updated.
Other
Bigger system call table
To support add ons that use syscalls in the new range.
Hooks for dumping
Kernel hooks for optional threaded core dump module.
Myrdraal has also done a change summary at Cutting Edge Linux.
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