ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org. Changelog below.

Cox writes, “Radeonfb seems to have the odd problem but the rest now
looks solid.”

2.4.13-ac4
o Fix undefined pci symbols on some build setups (Paval Roskin)
o Fix some of the license tag bits left to sort (Keith Owens)
o Fix mtrr compile problem (Andrew Morton)
o Fix hang on boot with PIV and apic enabled (Mikael Pettersson)
o Remove duplicate Pete Zaitcev entry (Pete Zaitcev)
o ARM updates (ARM926.1020, camelot, etc) (Russell King)
o Use BIOS floppy reset (non legacy PC’s may
otherwise get very unhappy) (Mikael Pettersson)
o Add rtc_lock to the get_cmos_time call (me)
o Make the Zoran configuration easier (Terry Mathews)
o Handle chipsets that dont get 8254 latches
right and trigger the VIA warning in error (Roberto Biancardi)
o Fix recording on trident cards (Alex Larsson)
o Fix an i2c config error (J A Magallon)
o Handle IBM T-23 with apparently wrong eeprom
eepro100 data (Alex Bligh)
o Make apic pm unconditional (Mikael Pettersson)
o Switch msdos file systems to use private
event counting not global “event” (Manfred Spraul)
o Genelink GL620-USB drivers (Jiun-Jie Huang,
Stanislav Brabec)

2.4.13-ac3
o Swap locking updates (Hugh Dickins)
o ACPI serial console/debug support (ia64) (Khalid Aziz)
o Netlink device locking fixes (Christoph Hellwig)
o Faster sys5 directory lookups (Christoph Hellwig)
o Hopefully fix sparc64 -ac build (Mike Warren)
o Fix hang trying to report fatal error on
aha152x (me)
o Fix SMP deadlock in i60uscsi.c (me)
o Fix error path in cmpci that forget to unlock (me)
o Fix error path in saa7110 that forgot to unlock (me)
o Fix error path in ibmtr that forgot to unlock (me)
| These lock fixes are from Jeff Fosters analysis
| the others I still need to look at.
o If the BIOS turns off PCI ordering on the
AMD762, turn it back on again (me)
o Tidy rep nop uses in x86 asm files (Manfred Spraul)
o Further hat fix for hid input devices (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix USB + highmem problems (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Remove dead option from USB config (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add aiptek tablet support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o PCI hotplug documentation updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Alpha build fix (Jurriaan)

2.4.13-ac2
o Cast fixes for warnings (Jeff Garzik)
o Parse MP OEM data for NUMA nodes (Martin Bligh)
o Possible fix for the X/screenblank hang on
console switching (Chris Ahna)
o Fix cycle detection on PC164/LX164 Alpha boxes (Richard Henderson,
Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Small parport update (Tim Waugh)
o Remove now unneeded PAE export (Hugh Dickins)
o PnPBIOS driver update (Thomas Hood)
o Update AGP tables and idents for SiS devices (Can-Ru Yeou)
o Merge newer SiS frame buffer drivers (Can-Ru Yeou)
| Clean up is my fault so if it broke tell me
o Fix ac97 unknown codec oops (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Acenic + highmem patch (Dave Miller)
o Add pci tables to zoran drivers (Andrey Panin)
o Switch neomagic 256 to ac97_codec (Jeff Garzik)
o VIA audio pause fix (Thomas Sailer)
o SYS5 changelog update (Jeff Garzik)

2.4.13-ac1
o Merge with Linus 2.4.13

2.4.12-ac7
o Fix i2o_proc locking thinko (me)
o Aiptek tablet driver (Chris Atenasio)
o Update ARM920T support (Russell King)
o Add some additional PCI idents (Tim Hockin)
o Further SA1100/CERF ARM updates (Russell King)
o Reduce printk noise in amd flash driver (David Woodhouse)
o Add missing schedule()
to jffs2 gc thread (David Woodhouse)
o Add license tag to NTFS (Richard Russon)
o PCMCIA suspend fix for SA1100 ARM (Russell King)
o Increase close wait tracking for ip_conntrack (Darrell Escola)
o PCI hot plug support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Compaq FC driver update (Steve Cameron)
o Fix UP APIC without IOAPIC build fail (Mikael Pettersson)
o Intel 82092 PCI/PCMCIA bridge support (Arjan van de Ven)
| Based heavily on the pcmcia package
o Include buffer size extension in dhcp frames (Andreas Steinmetz)
o Fix u14f/u34f build problem (Andreas Steinmetz)
o Fix trident.c build on Alpha (me)
o Various other Alpha build fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Simplify serverworks mtrr check (Dave Jones)
o ARM configuration updates (Russell King)
o Update natsemi driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Computone ip2 update (Michael Warfield)
o Fix CONFIG_SIMNOW (Andi Kleen)
o Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
o Make autofs4 return symlink lengths

2.4.12-ac6
o Fix more preprocessor oddments (Jean-Luc Leger)
o Fix ipconfig build (Mauricio Zambrano)
o Radeonfb updates (7500, 8500, fp support)
(Ani Joshi)
o Excalibur ARM support (Altera)
o Enable SA1110 clock scaling on Cerf (Russell King)
o ARM config updates (Russell King)
o Fix ulong->unsigned long in videodev.h (Felix von Leitner)
o Miscellaneous ARM bits (Russell King)
o Support the Promise SX6000 better (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix a problem with ymfpci and civctp (Pete Zaitcev)
o Update the ARM shark maintainer contact info (Alexander Schulz)
o PF_MEMALLOC kswapd death fix (Manfred Spraul)
o Remove now surplus quota ifdefs from ext3 (Andrew Morton)
o USB locking fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o UHCI fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add more pegasus driver idents (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Scanner unload race fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o ARM assabet updates (Russell King)
o Add additional APIC message retransmit handling (Stephen Tweedie)
o Add excalibur ARM include files (Altera)
o RTL8139CP driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Sun network driver license tags (Jeff Garzik)
o Add some new pci idents (Jeff Garzik)
o Sundance alta driver updates
o Airo driver update (Javier Achirica, Jean Tourhilles,
Jeff Garzik, Ben Reed)
o Add license tags to various sound drivers (Frank Davis)

Anonymous Reader writes, “It seems the outcry from the tech community over the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) has been heard. The Senate Commerce Committee postponed Friday’s hearing on the bill due to mounting opposition. The bill’s author, Senator Fritz Hollings, will consider modifications to the bill before making any decisions to re-schedule.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/ssscapost. html“

From DebianPlanet: “Does anyone know what improvements are happening to the Debian install for when Woody goes stable? I’m praying for things like hardware detection and a GUI install option. It’ll be pretty sad if the Woody install doesn’t include some of these features since they’ve been in several other distros for many revisions now. It makes Debian look outdated.”

From Slashdot: “This is part six of the Advanced filesystem implementor’s guide. I’ve been following an outstanding series of articles about implementing the advanced filesystems that are available with Linux 2.4. The author really knows his stuff and has done a great job with explaining Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and the other file systems that are available.”

From Wired: “Hacker Kevin Mitnick will be playing a CIA computer expert on an upcoming episode of ABC’s hot spy thriller Alias and Microsoft Chief Software Engineer Bill Gates will appear in an episode of NBC’s Emmy award-winning Frasier in November. Gates plays himself in the Frasier episode scheduled to air Nov. 13. Mitnick appears in the Oct. 28 episode of Alias, playing Agent Burnett, a computer-savvy CIA agent who hacks into the network of bad-guy organization SD-6.”

From Advogato: “I’m currently running a Mozilla Bug Week to help new people get involved with working on the Mozilla code. The purpose of this article is both to plug it, and to discuss whether it’s possible to lower the barrier to entry to such a complex project, or whether I am doomed 🙂
My perception has for a long time been that the barrier to entry at the Mozilla project was too high. Mozilla is an extremely complex project, requiring 1.5Gb of space and multiple hours on a normal box to build a debug build, and our docs are pretty terrible.”

From Slashdot: “Magnus Lie Hetland is working on a generic GUI wrapper to allow Python developers to write cross-platform GUIs. The anygui project will expose a common set of functions to the programmer and choose which backend gui toolkit to use for the given platform: TK, WIN32, GTK, Bethon, etc. Currently the software is in an alpha stage. The article also has some example code.”

From DebianPlanet: “Real coders use vi, gcc and gdb to produce their C or C++ code. I’m looking for graphical equivalents for them because I can’t live with borland c++ builder (C) forever. I can’t use DDD or Insight because they’re not IDE’s. It can debug, but not edit. Then I looked at gIDE, but it’s far from usable. I’m running out of options here!”

From Wired: “With software like Acid, Logic, Cubase and ProTools, musicians now have on the desktop a seemingly limitless ability to cut up, affect, loop and rearrange sounds. Altering the tempo, pitch and feel of a beat has become almost as easy as changing the font in this sentence. But that’s not necessarily a good thing, Eno said. These programs lead musicians to “attend to details at an infinitely fine level whilst ignoring the macro,” said Eno, one of the first popular musicians to experiment with tape loops and electronics.”

“Nottingham, UK 26, October 2001 – The
anti-theft features incorporated in WindowsXP
that Microsoft claimed would put an end to
software theft were broken within hours of the
product being launched on 25 October 2001.” We all knew it was only a matter of time, right? More info is at SourceWire.com. NOTE: NewsForge does not advocate unauthorized use of proprietary software. We suggest switching to Linux instead of using Microsoft products illegally.