Today's Kernel Release - 2.0.37pre3 | Linux Today

Today’s Kernel Release – 2.0.37pre3

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 15, 1998

Alan Cox
writes:

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.0.37pre/…

2.0.37pre3 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre2

o   Nasty cache bug fixed       (Mikael Pettersson)
    | Quake should work again now.
o   NCR53c8xx update        (Gerard Roudier)
o   AIC7xxx update          (Doug Ledford)
o   Initio driver update        (Bas)
o   Dumb sound bug cured        (Oleg Drokin)
o   Lance multidetect fix       (Orc)
o   Miscellaneous cleanup/small fixes (Hans-Joachim Baader, Scott, Riley and others)

2.0.37pre2 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre1

o   ACard SCSI driver       (ACard)
o   Initio SCSI update      (Initio)
o   Tulip driver update         (Don Becker)
o   Add new SMC card to PCI     (Andrew Pam)
o   DVD may have >800Mb files   (Ulrich Habel)
o   Readv/writev mand lock fix  (Jamie Lokier)
o   Support for 2Gig/3Gig machines  (Ingo/Leonard)
    | Im not sure quite if Ingo's patch is based on Leonards or whatever
    | Also if you use 2Gig or 3Gig you are shrinking the per process
    | address space. So dont do it casually.
o   Fix protocol bug in IGMP2 code  (Julian Highfield)
o   Floppy diver update     (Alain Knaff)

2.0.37pre1 includes the following changes over 2.0.36

o   Serial supports a couple of PCI cards (Henning Schmiedehausen)
o   Tekram (DC390T) update      (Kurt Garloff)
o   DAC960 beta driver      (Leonard Zubkoff)
o   Slow A20 gate fix       (Leonard Zubkoff)
o   Keyboard race fix
o   3c59x updated           (Don Becker)
o   DEPCA updated           (Don Becker)
o   EEPro100 updated        (Don Becker)
o   RTL8139 updated         (Don Becker)
o   Initio 91XX driver      (Initio, arranged by SuSE)
o   AIC7xxx update          (Doug Ledford)
o   ICMP include symbol fix
o   Bridge port change fix      (Vova Oksman)
o   PPTP masquerading

Web Webster

Web Webster

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