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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-798
2005-08-24
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.1435_FC4
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.
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Update Information:
This kernel update rebases to the latest stable snapshot
(2.6.12.5), which contains a number of minor security fixes.
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* Tue Aug 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1435_FC4]
- Work around AMD x86-64 errata 122.
* Tue Aug 23 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- upgrade to today's Xen snapshot
* Mon Aug 22 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- make sure that the vsyscall-note is linked in so the right glibc is used
* Sun Aug 21 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- fix the Xen vsyscall problem
* Thu Aug 18 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- Don't probe 8250 ports on ppc32 unless they're in the device tree
- Enable ISDN, 8250 console, i8042 keyboard controller on ppc32
- Audit updates from git tree
* Wed Aug 17 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- temporarily disable the vsyscall page for Xen
* Tue Aug 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Restrict ipsec socket policy loading to CAP_NET_ADMIN. (CAN-2005-2555)
* Mon Aug 15 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- upgrade Xen to a newer version
* Mon Aug 15 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.11.5
- Fix module_verify_elf check that rejected valid .ko files. (#165528)
* Thu Aug 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Audit speedup in syscall path.
- Update to a newer ACPI drop.
* Fri Aug 5 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1420_FC4]
- update to final 2.6.12.4 patchset.
- ACPI update to 20050729.
- Disable experimental ACPI HOTKEY driver. (#163355)
* Thu Aug 4 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Enable Amiga partition support. (#149802)
* Wed Aug 3 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1411_FC4]
- Include pre-release 2.6.12.4 patchset
- Silence some messages from PowerMac thermal driver. (#158739)
- nfs server intermitently claimed ENOENT on existing files or directories. (#150759)
- Stop usbhid driver incorrectly claiming Wireless Security Lock as a mouse. (#147479)
- Further NFSD fixing for non-standard ports.
- Fix up miscalculated i_nlink in /proc (#162418)
- Fix addrlen checks in selinux_socket_connect. (#164165)
* Thu Jul 28 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix compilation with older gcc. (#164041)
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/
fb2c676c4ac7744f46c49e95346d4d02 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.src.rpm
70279d49623a48734ade51dbc8222509 ppc/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc.rpm
8c7eb9f8e66e9dd274ab94b57f60b1a2 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc.rpm
b7e2ef40732a76dadfa9903af5341bff ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc.rpm
3a9c1c0afdce034be7674571acce86c6 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc.rpm
79ac7664b7988e76c5926759d3878f2d ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc.rpm
98b3c19446cc7da5ea60c279f71b8eb8 ppc/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc64.rpm
81a571e42ca3c423c1e225fe48287cb2 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc64.rpm
ff5f326004026396f24bef838d9a9e4c ppc/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc64iseries.rpm
6179c2a7ba5fad3985abfd6ae4cca075 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.ppc64iseries.rpm
2313ef707ccb977b40fe4290c5ba5911 x86_64/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.x86_64.rpm
6b21053841fd0d0b18432e08f3601b17 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.x86_64.rpm
c7671b0b875eb9085f90247588545e86 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.x86_64.rpm
d16548ea1e8874bf988467608c3ea15a x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.x86_64.rpm
c5b9e5a9b039648def7a6be049db3df4
x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.x86_64.rpm
f6e6b940cf534adaac9744c820f7ef66 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.noarch.rpm
9e53a3f6c20e81c514fa2df061f18715 i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i586.rpm
4bbf41ce71e1fb67c947a52ee549b782 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i586.rpm
0e32c51296395331b1cee2529cd0cec4 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i586.rpm
0f6e5f06d414e31f823f720111ef690b i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
c7b6a19a12f6b2a4dc87e865a4b331d3 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
482a697f545fdb322ea8db0ce84399f9 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
7859277573dd0611faaca3b99f398abf i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
38031ff57e20064e9f139d826844170d i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
79565e6159b6054b74ed03068839e46d i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
84200581fa8090f9c04ecdef75442943 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
77cc27cfd4e5d6929cd32bcce6153c09 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
224f1fa918097a764304289c28deac36 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.i686.rpm
f6e6b940cf534adaac9744c820f7ef66 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1435_FC4.noarch.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4...
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