Linux 1.3.43

Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:42:56 +0200


Ok, Linux-1.3.42 _wasn't_ the answer to all your prayers, but you have
to admit that the IRS _did_ close down for a day or two. So I did
pretty well, considering that Win'95 and Bill never even got close.

Anyway, I now made a 1.3.43 release, which has

- preliminary support for mlock()/munlock/mlockall()/munlockall(), and
a "almost-posix" realtime scheduler. In fact, the scheduler _may_ be
perfectly ok, but I haven't added the system calls to actually set
the scheduling policies etc, so you can't actually use the new
scheduler features yet. POSIX RT people, please do contact me..
- slightly different output for kernel panic and error messages: this
is automatically parseable by "klogd", and you'll see some movement
on that front too I do believe.
- "cat /proc/cpuinfo" no longer crashes on a Pentium Pro.
- IDE driver update
- some floppy fixes..
- mcd driver update
- sbpcd driver update
- TGA driver update
- NFS root code should be happy together with the math emulation again.
- "arp_device_event: bug" should be fixed.

Anyway, my machine will be going down tonight for a scheduled
power-outage (duh.. transformer coil-cleaning or whatever), which is
why I wanted to make this available.

Linus