Alan Cox writes:
I’ve put up 2.2.0pre7ac3 on
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2pre/…
Differences between 2.2.0pre7ac2 and 2.2.0pre7ac3
- Davem’s sparc patches merged. Might well work sparc now
- NFS client over tcp works.
- Dropped IPI counter remnant
- More Config.help cleanup
- matroxfb help improvements
- Ted’s serial fix
- 8390 versus PCMCIA fix
- PPP ipv6 change
- IPX crash fix (I hope)
- Last bits of the ultimate make xconfig we hope (xconfig should
now be nice for all)
Differences between 2.2.0pre7ac1 and 2.2.0pre7ac2
- Fixed Config help bug in PCI stuff
- NFS client over tcp might well work now
- IP automatic route addition can be disabled
- IPX bind to down interface sort of fixed.
- Small sound clean ups on the SB/ESS stuff
- Major bttv update – please test this hard
- Make xconfig ought to work – give it a hammering
- Updated RCPCI I2O lan driver
- AHA15xx config info update
- Typo fixes
- Added dcache doc
- APM update
- Old HD driver fixed
- Geometry fixes for IDE
- UM8886 IDE controllers irq detection fixed
- 3c59x byte counters
- Remove remaining cern_hippi bits
- ext2 fsync update
- isofs fixes
- de4x5 should compile ok now
Differences between 2.2.0pre7 and 2.2.0pre7ac1
- Config help for Apollo and for INITIO scsi
- Large fd arrays (100,000 per process!)
- Console font handling fixes in 512 char mode
- Lance allows compiling as a module
- EEPro100 has byte counters
- Some shaper bug work – still doesnt work in 2.2.0pre
- Symbios 53c416 support
- QlogicFC fibre channel controller support
- Problems with certain numbers of disks fixed
- PAS2 and SB sound fixes
- Swap/page size header stuff handled right
- NFS client knows about BSD style FIFO rule
- Memory locking fixes for /proc
- AVL tree VMA handling for speed when running debug tools
- Root-dev sysctl works for both endians
- IP masquerade bug fix for ICMP masq
- NFS over TCP mostly works
- Xconfig fixes
- IPI counter on SMP
- ver_linux script improvements
Oh yeah I left some I2O references in in error. Just say N to
those 8)
Alan