I skipped a day... tonight's VGER snapshot

David S. Miller (davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 21 Sep 1997 02:37:22 -0400


1) Merge entire tree to 2.1.56 (me).

2) Updates for Longtrail PPC support (Geert/Paul).

3) Lots of PPC/SMP progress (Cort).

4) Add initial quad precision FPU emul support for sparc64 (Jakub).

5) Fix for mm_segment_t compilation problems on Intel (Martin).

6) K6 detection updates (merged in by me, forgot who submitted
this to me tho').

7) Fix compilation problems when masquerading is enabled (me).

8) Add missing module symbols needed for packet scheduler (me, andi).

9) Allow ipip/tunnel to compile as a module again (me).

10) PCI changes. Bridge optimizations and arch-indep PCI
peculiarities moved to seperate file (Martin).

11) Add syscall entries for PCI config space pokes on
sparc64, they were missing duh (me).

12) sys_prctl() support merged in (R. Gooch).

13) Part 1 of Posix.1b signal support, more to come (Richard).

14) Some progress in Sparc audio drivers (Tom Dyas).

Since the tree is merged to 2.1.56, the vanilla patches are against
2.1.56.

ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/davem

linux-2.1.56-VGER-CVS970920.tar.gz full source
patch-2.1.56-VGER-CVS970918-CVS970920.gz against prev vger snap
patch-2.1.56-VGER-vanilla-CVS970920.gz against vanilla 2.1.56

Later,
David "Sparc" Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu