PRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ANNOUNCE] WOLK v4.10s FINAL - Server Edition

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Hi all,

I just send this to the ML so you have the time to speak _now_ what's missi=
ng
or not fixed or whatever! GO AHEAD. You have: 1 Hour from now on! :) After=
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that, I'll start uploading v4.10s.

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Changelog from v4.9s -> v4.10s
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o   added:    Promise PDC ULTRA SATA support v1.00.0.10
o   added:    Emulex FC support v1.23a
o   added:    Quick Sort support (qsort)
o   added:    ignore unrecognized mount options
o   added:    ATI IGP chipset support
o   added:    S3 Savage support
o   added:    VIA CLE266 support
o   added:    full XAPIC support (vanilla has half of this :p)
o   added:    rICMP support
o   added:    libata (S-ATA support via SCSI layer)
                same as 2.6 kernel version
o   fixed:    broken 2.4.x rt_sigprocmask error handling
o   fixed:    IDE timeout race fix
o   fixed:    CAN-2004-0077: return proper do_munmap() error code
o   fixed:    CAN-2003-0984: /dev/rtc can leak parts of kernel memory to
                unpriviledged users
o   fixed:    CAN-2003-0985: malicious users of mremap() syscall can gain
                priviledges
o   fixed:    check bounds in do_brk (recently used to exploit Debian Serve=
rs)
o   fixed:    full modular IDE build problems
o   fixed:    Support for processor throttling when VMware runs
o   fixed:    overflow on unaligned checksum buffers
o   fixed:    handle unreachable IO-APICs in ACPI without panic
o   fixed:    problem where every user who can open /dev/cdrom crash kernel
o   fixed:    boot code overflow with more CPUs than CONFIG_NR_CPUS
o   fixed:    missing brackets in agpgart
o   fixed:    SCSI: never ever merge requests if we exceed the maximum numb=
er
                of scatter-gather segments that fit into a page.
o   fixed:    another potential procfs memory leak
o   fixed:    PAX' SEGMEXEC did not work with HIGHMEM vs. SMP
o   fixed:    years outstanding bug with P3/P4 Hyperthreading :-(
o   fixed:    problem with set_ioapic_affinity()
o   fixed:    SMP kernel dummy APIC emulation in smpboot for x86:
                the process timer must be driven from the 8253 in this case.
o   fixed:    mpparse for default MP systems
o   fixed:    missing memory barrier in get_request_wait_wakeup()
o   fixed:    Data region of memory output was negative
o   fixed:    more irq/bh races (smp_mb()'s)
o   fixed:    nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 didn't compile
o   fixed:    race in the O(1) scheduler
o   fixed:    memory leak in kernel module loader
o   fixed:    possible SMP deadlock on reboot
o   fixed:    log_buf_len boot parameter
o   fixed:    too few characters for boot parameters
o   fixed:    ipc_init() SMP crash
o   fixed:    route SMIs through IOAPIC
o   fixed:    RCU helpers for PREEMPT
o   fixed:    reduce bkl contention caused by blkdev_put
o   fixed:    missing symbol 'console_printk' for IDE modularization
o   fixed:    disable the anti-DoS fix tested on some embedded
                platforms, to avoid regressions due softirq delays
o   fixed:    mmap on /dev/mem wrt to uncached accesses
o   fixed:    wrong APIC handling for SMP/HT
o   fixed:    ieee1394 locking bug in nodemgr
o   fixed:    memory leak in user space communication with USB devices
o   fixed:    memory leaks in LVM v1.0.7
o   fixed:    IPVS: ip_vs_tunnel_xmit to return NF_DROP when no memory
                available
o   fixed:    IPVS: add strict boundary check in parsing FTP commands
o   updated:  LSI MegaRAID (driver series v1.18k)
o   updated:  LSI MegaRAID (driver series v2.10.1)
o   updated:  Intel e100 driver v2.3.38
o   updated:  Intel e1000 driver v5.2.20
o   updated:  DRBD v0.6.11
o   updated:  AIC7xxx v6.3.4 / AIC79xx v2.0.5 (v2004-02-09)
o   updated:  PPP Microsoft encryption/compression (MPPE/MPPC) v0.98
o   updated:  SysKonnect SK-98xx driver v6.21
o   updated:  Device Mapper (LVM2) v4.0.4-ioctl (2003-08-30)
o   updated:  EVMS v2.1.1
o   updated:  LVM v1.0.8
o   updated:  replaced Super FreeS/WAN with OpenS/WAN v1.0.1
o   updated:  CryptoAPI from 2.4.22/2.4.23/2.4.24/2.4.25-pre6
o   updated:  CryptoLOOP (jari edition)
o   updated:  rmap VM v15l
o   updated:  grsecurity v1.9.13 Final + CVS fixes up to 2004-02-18
o   updated:  tons of ACPI fixes for UP/SMP/HT and better Notebook support.
o   updated:  convert /proc/interrupts to use seq_file
o   updated:  shfs v0.32-pre2
o   updated:  Intel VTune Support
o   updated:  RFCOMM protocol support v12
o   updated:  FireWire IEEE1394 rev1050
o   updated:  USB: tons of fixes and updates
o   updated:  Broadcom BCM5700 driver v7.0.0
o   updated:  Broadcom Tigon3 v2.3
o   updated:  Compressed Loop (cloop) v1.02
o   updated:  DAC960 RAID Driver v2.4.20 of 1 May 2003
                (Vanilla still has the driver from kernel 2.4.11!!)
o   updated:  Intel/ICP RAID Controller support v2.06
o   updated:  Qlogic QLA 2x00 v6 FC SCSI support v6.06.00
o   updated:  3ware Driver v1.02.00.037
o   updated:  CPU Frequency scaling v2.4.22 2003-09-01
o   updated:  XFS v1.3.1 Final (SCO: go and fuck yourself!)
o   removed:  RMAP: OOM killer braindamage fix fix fix fix: BROKEN!
o   removed:  Option 'PS/2 keyboard support': broke too much stuff
o   changed:  CPU - Cap Processor Usage: Make it a config option





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Kind regards
        Marc-Christian Petersen

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_171853.html

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