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* [uml-devel] 2.6.13.4-bs4 released - fixes for SKAS0 problems - careful about COW
@ 2005-10-15 11:25 Blaisorblade
  2005-10-20 20:54 ` Phill Wombat
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Blaisorblade @ 2005-10-15 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: user-mode-linux-user, user-mode-linux-devel, Kai Tan; +Cc: Jeff Dike, Nix

Ok, I've batched together the existing fixes and released -bs4.
It's really nice, it fixes various problems, as indicated on the website. But 
it also restores the 2.6.12 COW format (see below) - so please beware to your 
COW files!

Changelog follows

* -bs3 didn't apply on top of 2.6.13.3, because one of his patches was merged 
in it. So remove it from -bs. 

* CAREFUL : 2.6.13 kernel changed the COW format from all previous kernels in 
an unintended way (and it wasn't our fault). -bs4 restores the previous 
format, but this means you likely won't be able to use the same COW files 
when switching from any 2.6.13 to -bs4; but -bs4 has the same format as any 
<= 2.6.12 or >= 2.6.14 UML kernel. 

*  fix compilation of UML on x86_64 with SKAS0 

* fix compilation of UML on i386 without SKAS mode 

* fix SKAS0 mode assembly code - this could stop it from working on some old 
GCC compilers (this happened, for instance, on GCC 3.2.3, and on RH 9).

-- 
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