[Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.0-test4)

David Mosberger
2000-07-14T21:37:34Z

Here is a long overdue kernel update. There relative diff I usually
provide would have been too big (and hard to read) to include in this
mail, so I'm just providing a summary of changes and the full diff,
relative to the official 2.4.0-test4 kernel can be found at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/linux/ports/ia64/

as usual. The filename for the current patch is:

linux-2.4.0-test4-ia64-000714.diff.gz

Summary of changes:

- latest IA-32 fixes by Don Dugger (Don, can you check sys_ia32.c? I
changed the way utime() is implemented. Also, I still think it would
be a good idea to try to make the mmap emulation good enough so that
it can be used for loading IA-32 ELF binaries. Some code for doing
that is there now, though it's probably not complete.)

- clone2 system call is there now (works like clone, except that it
specifies the stack memory area explicitly via a starting address
and size)

- simplified kernel configuration for HP Simulator (Ski) by removing
options that don't make sense

- probably a couple of other things I already forgot about---check patch
for a complete reference... ;-)

Enjoy,

--david