--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1022 2006-10-16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.18 Release : 1.2200.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:
This update rebases the kernel to the latest upstream stable release (2.6.18.1)
Changelogs available upstream at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.1 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
Fedora specific changes detailed below.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sat Oct 14 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.18.1 * Tue Oct 10 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - DWARF2 unwinder fixes. - Various lockdep fixes. - Sync various other patches from the FC6 kernel. * Sun Oct 1 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Drop the STICKY tag from acpi-cpufreq, it breaks suspend/resume. * Fri Sep 29 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Execshield improvements. (Bart Oldeman) - Disable PM_DEBUG * Thu Sep 28 2006 Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com - utrace typo fix for x86-64 watchpoints (#207467) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix ISAPNP messages on ppc32. (#207641) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Another day, another round of lockdep fixes. - Align kernel data segment to page boundary. (#206863) * Thu Sep 28 2006 Steven Whitehouse swhiteho@redhat.com - New GFS2 patch * Thu Sep 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix "kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2789!" bug * Wed Sep 27 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - Enable serverworks IDE driver for x86-64. - More lockdep fixes. * Mon Sep 25 2006 Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com - Make kernel packages own initrd files * Mon Sep 25 2006 John W. Linville linville@redhat.com - Add periodic work fix for bcm43xx driver * Sat Sep 23 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Disable dgrs driver. * Thu Sep 21 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - 2.6.18 - i965 AGP suspend support. - AGP x8 fixes. * Tue Sep 19 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - Bring back 586smp - Fix RTC lockdep bug. (Peter Zijlstra) * Mon Sep 18 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - xen HV update (cset 11470:2b8dc69744e3). * Sun Sep 17 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - Rebase to 2.6.18rc7-git2 * Mon Sep 11 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2187_FC5] - Add quirk for Samsung mp3 player. (#198128) * Sun Sep 10 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix up mismerge in USB storage driver. * Sat Sep 9 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.13 * Fri Sep 8 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.12 * Thu Aug 24 2006 Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com - update to 2.6.17.11 * Tue Aug 22 2006 Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com - update to 2.6.17.10« * Tue Aug 15 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - Drop iscsi update patch. * Mon Aug 7 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.8 * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix split lock patch for 64bit. * Fri Aug 4 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2171_FC5] - 2.6.17.8rc1 * Wed Aug 2 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Readd patch to allow 460800 baud on 16C950 UARTs * Sat Jul 29 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Silence noisy SCSI ioctl. (#200638) * Fri Jul 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.7 * Thu Jul 27 2006 Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com - reduce hypervisor stack use with -O2, this really fixes bug (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com - disable debug=y hypervisor build option because of stack overflow (#198932) * Tue Jul 25 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Enable serio_raw (#199387) * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Support up to 4GB in the 586 kernel again. * Sun Jul 16 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.6 * Fri Jul 14 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Reenable SMC NIC driver. * Tue Jul 11 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17.4 - Disable split pagetable lock * Sat Jul 8 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - 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@redhat.com - 2.6.17.3 - 2.6.17.2 - Fix the ALSA list_add bug. * Mon Jun 26 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Enable fake PCI hotplug driver. (#190437) - Enable gameport/joystick on i586 builds. (#196581) * Sat Jun 24 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Enable profiling for 586 kernels. * Fri Jun 23 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Make 'quiet' work again. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2139_FC5] - Rebuild with slab debug off. * Tue Jun 20 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.17-1.2138_FC5] - 2.6.17.1 * Sun Jun 18 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.17 - Only print info about SMP alternatives on SMP kernels. * Tue Jun 6 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.16-1.2133_FC5] - Add a PPC64 kdump kernel. * Mon Jun 5 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com [2.6.16-1.2132_FC5] - 2.6.16.20 * Thu Jun 1 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Reenable Xen builds. * Tue May 30 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - 2.6.16.19 * Sun May 28 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Fix unresolved symbol. (#193333) * Sat May 27 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Improve list corruption debugging patch. * Fri May 26 2006 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com - Remove xenU initrd's when kernel is removed. * Fri May 26 2006 Juan Quintela quintela@redhat.com - Remove ARCH=xen reminiscences on spec file
--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
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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/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------