Verwijderd vond op Kernel.org een nieuwe uitgave van de Linux 2.6-kernel. De release gaat als 2.6.4 door het leven en is vanaf deze server in verschillende smaken te downloaden. Linus Torvalds meldt dat in 2.6.4 vooral aanpassingen zijn doorgevoerd voor het PPC64-platform. Het volledig changelog is op deze pagina te aanschouwen, hieronder zijn de release notes van de Linux-goeroe geplaatst:
A few small fixes since -rc3, most notably an OHCI bug that would corrupt memory and seems to have been the reason for the "Bad page flags" bug at least on ppc64 (it's not been reported on x86, as far as I know, but I don't see why the corruption couldn't have happened there too).The full changelog from 2.6.3 is on the ftp-sites along with the patches and tar-balls, and the BK trees have been updated.
Linus
Summary of changes from v2.6.4-rc3 to v2.6.4
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- tty oops fix
- ppc64 POWER3 segment table fix
- Fix PCI<->OF matching on G5 AGP bus
- ppc64: Fix occasional crash at boot in OF interface
- ppc64: Let OF initialize all displays in the system
- Fix lockup accessing config space on G5
- USB: fix OHCI list corruption
- Proper OHCI unlink fix
- pcnet32.c oops
- bttv input update
- set request fastfail bit correctly
- [IPV4/IPV6]: Add missing kmalloc failure checks
- Make sure to include syscalls.h to get proper prototypes
- Remove 'const' from min/max, to avoid gcc warning about double usage
- Make bad_page() print out information about who triggered it
- Revert 8259 timer ack workaround
- Make bad_page() print out the page address
- Linux 2.6.4
- [IPV6]: Do not report " rel="external">multi,anycast in inet6_dump_ifaddr()
- ncpfs fails to correctly retry requests on timeout
- [ALPHA] Mark exit_code before waking process for SINGLESTEP
- [ALPHA] Fix compressed bootp
- [ALPHA] Fix gcc 3.4 build problems
- [ALPHA] Add stat64 syscalls
Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Bzip 2 patch
Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Tarball patch