Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4

Alan Cox: “If you have SIS IDE hardware please handle this kernel with care and report success/failures to Lionel.”

Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.18/

[+ indicates stuff that went to Marcelo, o stuff that has not,
 * indicates stuff that is merged in mainstream now, X stuff that proved
   bad and was dropped out]

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*       If you have SIS IDE hardware please handle this kernel with care
*       and report success/failures to Lionel. 
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Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4
o       SIS IDE driver update (handle with care)        (Lionel Bouton)
o       First set of I2O endian cleanups                (me)
o       Make i2o_pci.c 64bit/BE clean                   (me)
o       Maybe fix crash on i2o scsi abort/reset paths   (me)
o       Make i2o use the passed scsi direction flag     (me)
o       Fix awk failure path in menuconfig              (Andrew Church)
o       Merge varies doc updates                        (Steven Cole)
o       Add serial support for the Lava Octopus-550     (Jim Treadway)
o       OPL3SA2 cleanup                                 (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o       Add missing blkdev_varyio export                (Todd Roy)
o       Update Changes file, config and experimental    (Niels Jensen)
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o       Fix highmem warning in aacraid                  (Andrew Morton)
o       Make tpqic02 use new style request region       (Marcus Alanen)
o       Only turn off mediagx/geode TSC on 5510/5520    (me)
        | From information provided by Hiroshi MIURA
o       Massively clean up the AGP enable and bugfix it (Bjorn Helgaas)
o       Fix oops if you try to use the RW wq locks      (Bob Miller)
o       Remove FPU usage in neomagic fb                 (Denis Kropp)
o       Merge IBM JFS                   (Steve Best, Dave Kleikamp, 
                                         Barry Arndt, Christoph Hellwig, ..)
o       Updated sis frame buffer driver                 (Thomas Winischhofer)