The preliminary 2.0.36 release notes are included below and maintained
as http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/relnotes.36.html
Alan
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Release Notes For Linux 2.0.36
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Bug Fixes
Large Memory
Linux 2.0.36 uses the newer bios calls to automatically size
memory above 64Mbytes, where supported by the BIOS.
Readv/Writev
Processes issuing a readv or writev to a device that did not
have the relevant read/write operation could cause an Oops and
potentially a crash.
UDMA Drives
Report Bad CRC (cable errors) as a cable error. Handling of
such errors was correct.
pipe syscall error
The pipe call could return ENFILE not -1 and errno= -ENFILE.
Fixed.
AIC7xxx
The 2.0.36 kernel contains the 5.0.20 release of the AIC7xxx
driver. This should cure most of the remaining problems with
the older chipsets. Users with the latest AIC7xxx devices will
have to wait for the next driver version to become available or
try the beta test driver.
Procfs permissions fix
A process with root file rights can now read all /proc files.
Daylight Savings in SMB
The SMB file system honours daylight savings time.
EATA SCSI/Ultrastor 14f/34f
Reverse scan order support and configurable extended geometry.
Increased the busy timeout.
Build fixes
Use relative paths for sound, remove trampoline.hex on a make
clean, support the newer versioned symbols as part of a multi
object file module.
Oops handling
A small fencepost error in Oops handling on syscall return has
been cured.
TLan 1.0
The Thunderlan driver has been updated to the 1.0 release.
Delay loops
The delay loop code has been modified to eliminate most of the
remaining cache/branch prediction and other variants to its
performance.
5.25" floppy
An incorrect floppy table entry has been altered, and a
potential crash on unload fixed.
Iomega ZIP driver
Handle 23.D firmware funnies.
Cyclades Serial
Upgraded driver from vendor, with assorted bugs fixed.
Printer Driver
The correction in the printer handling upset the Epson Stylus
800. The driver know has a LPSTRICT option that can be set for
printers that need absolute strict NBUSY handling.
Beeper gets stuck
The case where the beeper decides to beep forever has been
cured.
3c509 ethernet
Upgraded to v1.16. Fixes ID port clash with sound cards,
waiting for discard messages and recovers faster from transmit
errors.
3c59x driver
Updated 3c59x ethernet driver. This should cure the skb_push
panics some people saw with 3c59x/3c90x drivers under load.
Lance driver
Module unload bugs in the lance driver have been fixed.
Plip driver
Messages without severity levels now have appropriate levels.
AHA1542
Allow the use of DMA 0 on newer motherboards.
SHM swap off
A case where the machine might crash when turning swapping off
has been fixed.
MMAP security
Linux did not allow a writable mmap of an append only file. It
did however allow a readonly mmap of such a file then an
mprotect. Fixed.
NAKAMICH MJ-5.16S
This SCSI device has been added to the blacklist.
Single lun blacklisting
A bug in the single lun blacklisting has been fixed.
SCSI CAM division by zero
A corrupt geometry could cause the kernel to divide by zero and
crash.
Sound blaster
Don't report a DMA channel 0 for the MPU
Sequencer
If there are no synths or midi devices do not lock the
sequencer busy forever.
Autofs
Fix a small glitch in the directory hash.
ISOfs
Fix a fencepost error in the iso fs size checks.
Vfat fs
Disallow periods at the end of names.
NFS file system
Support FIFO's over NFS. Handle kill of nfsiod for module
unload.
NFS root
IFF_MULTICAST could be incorrectly not set.
Non modular soundmodem/baycom
These devices only worked as modules. They now work compiled
in.
Memory leak in networking
A very obscure leak in the networking code has been fixed.
TCP select
TCP select for urgent data now has correct semantics.
Previously it could do the wrong thing.
TCP SIGIO
SIGIO on an incoming connection is now correctly issued on the
completion of the three way handshake.
Enhancements
ISDN
The Isdn4linux layer is signifcantly upgraded. The new driver
set adds support for the Teles 16.3c, Teles PCI, Teles S0Box,
Creatix S0Box, Compaq ISDN S0 ISA, ELSA Quickstep 1000PCI, Elsa
Quickstep 3000, Elsa Quickstep 3000PCI, Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0
ISA/PCI (not Pro), Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola, AsusCom ISDNLink
128K, Dynalink IS64PH, HFC-2BS0 based cards, Sedlbauer Speed
Card(Speed win, teledat 100), Sedlbauer Speed Star PCMCIA, USR
Sportster Internal TA, ITH MIC 16 ISA, Traverse NETjet PCI,
Niccy PnP/PCI
Shaper
The shaper device provides a simple traffic limiting driver for
Linux 2.0.x. For full traffic shaping watch for Linux 2.2
coming soon..
Tulip
The tulip driver has been upgraded to 0.89H which should also
support the clone PNIC and MXIC tulip devices.
Extended CPUID/Chip identification
The Cyrix/AMD extended CPUID mode is supported. Cyrix
processors are identified even when CPUID is not available. The
Intel Celeron Mendicino is recognized. K6's with the random
oops bug are normally now detected. The K6 cpu deadlock problem
isn't detected as we know no way to check for it except to try
it.
Multi-Tech driver
Driver for multi-tech 4/8 port modem and serial
cards.(Experimental).
EtherExpress
The Compaq LTE should now be recognized (experimental)
Intel 440GX
The 440GX chipset is known to the PCI data tables.
Nvidia
NVidia/SGS Thomson is known to the PCI data tables.
SCSI medium changers
These are no long reported as unknown device types.
ROSE networking
The ROSE network layer has been updated.
Other
Bigger system call table
To support add ons that use syscalls in the new range.
Hooks for dumping
Kernel hooks for optional threaded core dump module.
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