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60 lines
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-- February 8 Erik Troan ``This is a list (and short
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description) of all of the stuff
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that's been moved out of pub/Linux/Incoming on sunsite.unc.edu
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in the past 10 days. If the description is wrong, please let me
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(ewt@sunsite.unc.edu) know asap as this is the same description that
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goes in the INDEX file.
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I'm going to try to get these things out weekly to semi-weekly, but
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sunsite is a mess, so it may take me a while to get on a regular schedule.
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/pub/linux/apps/m4-103A.taz
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General purpose macro language/preprocessor
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/pub/linux/kernel/misc-patches/snd-driv-0.5.tar.Z
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Sound card driver
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``He's done it again -- doesn't he ever rest''?Anonymous linux kernel
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hacker
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-- February 9 Linus sez:
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``Only complete newbies don't know what this is all about, but I'd better
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tell you anyway: patchlevel 5 of the 0.99 kernel is now available on
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nic.funet.fi (pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus) as both context diffs against
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pl4 and complete source code. I'm not even going to speculate on 1.0
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right now.
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The pl5 diffs are about 90kB compressed: the major changes are to the
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tcp/ip code and the serial driver, while there are various minor fixes
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strewn around the system:
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- serial lines/tty changes (tytso & Fred v Kempen)
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- NFS bugfixes (Rick Sladkey)
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- tcp/ip (Ross Biro)
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- coprocessor handling changes (me)
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- harddisk driver error handling (Mika Liljeberg)
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- various minor patches (me and others)
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Serial lines now implement non-blocking opens correctly and support
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dial-out lines (same minor, major .eq 5). I changed the default startup
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mode to be CLOCAL so that people won't get confused by the modem line
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code when not using dial-in.
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Another interesting change is the 387 error-coupling tests at bootup:
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the code to check if the intel-recommended exception 16 error reporting
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is present is non-obvious. If you have had problems with coprocessor
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error handling, or have a non-intel coprocessor, I'd suggest you test
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this out: I'd like to hear about problems/successes.
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PS. If you tested out the latest ALPHA-diffs (the ones that already
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changed the kernel version to pl5), the changes to the final pl5 were
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only cosmetic.
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