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2.4.4-ac8
o        Prefetch constant copy_to_user data             (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Update cpqarray driver - use pci dma api        (Charles White)
o        Update cciss driver - use pci dma api           (Charles White)
Linux 2.4.4ac8
From: Alan Cox 
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:09:14 +0100 (BST)


ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                         http://www.bzimage.org

**
** Please note change of ftp site. ftp.kernel.org switched to using ECN and
** it seems NTL's cablemodem folks have problem firewalls between their
** Inktomi cache and the world. The -ac patches and future 2.2.20pre will be 
** distributed from ftp.linux.org.uk until further notice.
**

2.4.4-ac8
o        Prefetch constant copy_to_user data             (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Update cpqarray driver - use pci dma api        (Charles White)
o        Update cciss driver - use pci dma api           (Charles White)
o        Enable compiled in synclink driver              (Paul Fulghum)
o        Fix plip section conflict                       (Keith Owens)
o        Tulip driver updates                            (Jeff Garzik)
o        Frame buffer logo updates                       (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        Update __initdata documentation                         (Ingo Oeser)
o        Linearize sunrpc buffers using GFP_KERNEL       (Trond Myklebust)
o        C Scott Ananian has moved                       (C Scott Ananian)
o        Update get_unaligned docs                       (John Levon)
o        Fix pci pool handling on boxes that have non    (Pete Zaitcev)
         irq safe map create/destroy
o        Update m68k semaphores                          (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        Update NLS Configure.help                       (Nerijus Baliunas)
o        Clean up cyclom driver                  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Further serial driver update                    (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix typo in sched.c                             (Jim Freeman)
o        Do prefetches on wake_up_common walk            (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix bootmem init problems                       (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix pops on cs46xx power management             (Thomas Woller)
o        Fix reference of freed memory in cs46xx                 (Christopher Kanaan)
o        Hopefully fix i2o scsi reset crash              (me)

2.4.4-ac7
o        Fix dasd off by one found by Al Viro            (me)
o        Fix copy under cli in
         moxa,mxser,pcxx,riscom8
o        Cleaned up serial167 formatting (no code        (me)
         changes this patch set)
o        Fix missing length check in AGPgart             (me)
         | Found by Al Viro

o        Fix wrong kmalloc sizes in ixj/emu10k1          (David Chan)
o        Fix make distclean on ramfs/tmpfs               (Ingo Oeser)
o        Update checkconfig, Changes                     (Niels Jensen)
o        NFS mmap consistency on close fix               (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix 10 bit decode causing APM hang on a laptop  (Pete Zaitcev)
         when using ymfpci
o        Reserve failure on vesa video ram is not fatal  (Jordan Crouse)
o        Update athlon mmx copier to not prefetch off    (Arjan van de Ven)
         the end
o        Fix scsi.c procfs zero termination checks       (Al Viro)
o        And fix -EFAULT returns from it                         (me)
o        Update ibm token ring driver                    (Mike Phillips)
o        Fix sockfilter maths overflow                   (Al Viro)
o        Make dev name lookup robust to nonterminated    (Al Viro)
         buffers
o        Update config.h use                             (Niels Jensen)
o        Fix xircom cardbus ethernet/modem support       (Bill Nottingham)
o        Fix off by one buffer checks in atm_poa and     (Al Viro)
         dasd
o        Clean up printks in zr36067.c                   (me)

2.4.4-ac6
o        Revert dead swap patch pending fixes            (Dave Miller)
o        Allow arch specific writeproc/DMA for IDE       (Bjorn Wesen)
o        Move to aic7xxx 6.1.13                          (Justin Gibbs)
o        Use pci_set_master on eni.c                     (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update wireless drivers, add airport            (Jean Tourrihles,
                                                         Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o        Add new pci ids, clean up dup defines in eicon  (Jeff Garzik)
o        Add module loader to kernel docs                (Erik Mouw)
o        Fix wanrouter makefile bug              (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Add another pair of idents to the yenta driver  (Alexandr Kanevskiy)
o        Parport fixes for 1284 mode                     (Fred Barnes)
o        Update 8139too driver to handle wakeup bug      (Jeff Garzik)
o        Add koi8-ru locale                              (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o       Add ICH3 to the i810 audio driver                (Tom Woller)
o        Improve (hopefully) the confusing I82365 help   (me)
o        Fix a bug in koi8-u tables                      (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix a bug in UTF8->CP1255                       (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix a bug in iso8859-13 tables                  (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Update gdth driver to current vendor release    (Achim Leubner)
o        Kill cpia_write_proc (its insecure)             (Al Viro, me)
o        Fix unterminated array strtoul() in comx        (Al Viro)
o        Fix TCP send path leak                          (Dave Miller)
o        Restore older skb_cow() headroom behaviour      (Dave Miller)
o        Fix ipv6 oops                                   (Dave Miller)
o        Small ipx tidy up                       (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Fix unprotected userspace reference in trident  (Al Viro)
         audio
o        Fix expand stack locking                        (Manfred Spraul)
o        Fix offslab_limit calculation                   (Manfred Spraul)
o        EATA and U14F updates                           (Dario Ballabio)
o        Update scsi generic to 3.1.18                   (Doug Gilbert)
o        Clean up abs()                                          (Kai Germaschewski)
         | This needs further checking

o        ymfpci update                                   (Pete Zaitcev)
o        Quota code updates                              (Jan Kara)
o        Clean up eicon include abuse                    (me)

2.4.4-ac5
o        Fix DMA setup on hpt366/370                     (Tim Hockin)
o        DRM memory alloc failure checks                         (Akash Jain)
o        Remove bogus fs/buffer.c diff                   (Ben LaHaise)
o        cs46xx update - adds Hercules Game Theatre XP   (Thomas Woller)
o        Fix menuconfig breakage with ()                 (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Updated multithreaded core dump support                 (Don Dugger)
o        Remove dead ibmtr.h include                     (Mike Phillips)
o        Fix misplaced letters in koi8-u                         (Andriy Rysin)
o        Further alpha module locking fix                (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Keyspan bitwidth fixes                          (Hugh Blemings)
o        usb-uhci oops fix                               (Pete Zaitcev)
o        Add ability to specify preferred minor on       (Gerd Knorr)
         video/radio4linux devices
o        Further IPX updates                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Further IRDA updates                            (Dag Brattli)
o        Make x86 ptrace framesize a define (code clean)         (Pavel Machek)
o        Moxa serial tidy                                (Tim Hockin)
o        Fix tiny select race                            (Rusty Russell)
o        Update aic7xxx to 6.1.12                        (Justin Gibbs)
o        Alpha was missing rwlock_init                   (Reto Baettig)
o        Alpha SCHED_YIELD was broken on UP              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Allow IRQ sharingon more PCI ide                (Pete Zaitcev)
o        Fix capable checks found by Stanford analyser   (me)
         for cciss/cpqarray
o        List more devices in sysrq table        (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Run uml exit callbacks reverse to init          (Andrew Morton)
o        Fix SMP resched_idle pre-emption bug            (Nigel Gamble)
o        Work around config problem with menuconfig
         and USB                                         (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix nasty bug in Alpha PCI mapping              (Hyung Min SEO)
         | Nautilus specific stuff not applied yet

o        SBLive endianness fixes         (output only so far)    (Ira Weiny)
o        Move sblive pci_enable earlier                  (Marcus Meissner)
o        Merge IBM ServeRAID 4.72 driver                         (Keith Mitchell)
o        Fix affs races                                  (Roman Zippel)
o        Fix cdrom unload crash                  (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.4-ac4
o        Fix future domain scsi                          (Carlo Prelz)
o        Merge Linux 2.4.5pre1
o        Fix ipx without sysctl compile                  (Pavel Roskin)
o        Revert fork changes to match Linus 2.4.5pre1
o        Drop the threaded core dump code
         | It can go back in when it works

o        Drop pa-risc work - it'll be easier to resync
         just once as pa has moved on a lot
o        Add spin_lock_prefetch to get_empty_inode       (me)
         | Experimenting

o        Kbuild has moved                                (Keith Owens)
o        Update kernel docs on memory barriers           (Rusty Russell)
o        Move es1370 pci_enable and do some cleanup      (Marcus Meissner)
o        Fix netfilter overuse of __exit                         (Rusty Russell)
o        Fix alpha build bug                             (Michal Jaegermann)
o        Fix tigon1 build                                (Olivier Galibert)
o        Fix tmpfs deadlocks writing into a file from    (Christoph Rohland)
         an mmap of itself
o        Fix missing (but harmless) return in vmtruncate         (Al Viro)

2.4.4-ac3
o        Fix hang on boot with SMP                       (Andrea Arcangeli)
         | and fixes a few more uglies too

o        freevxfs module name was wrong (should be       (me)
         freevxfs.o)
o        Update alloc_etherdev docs                      (Erik Mouw)
o        Remove dead funcs, put back ip_set_manually     (David Miller,
         in the ipconfig code                    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Fix SA_ONSTACK standards violation (for x86)    (Christian Ehrhardt)
         | Other arch maintainers should check..

o        Add another species of SB AWE 32                (Bill Nottingham)
o        SE401 USB camera driver                                 (Jeroen Vreeken)
o        Correct MAX_HD and make stuff static in ps2esdi         (Hal Duston)
o        Fix inode-nr corruption                                 (Al Viro)
o        Fix pgd_alloc for user mode linux               (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix UML hostfs for get_hardsect_size            (Jeff Dike)
o        Tidy up APM options setting, add module opts    (Stephen Rothwell)
o        Fix acm open race                               (Oliver Neukum)
o        Further bounce buffer fixes                     (Arjan van de Ven)
o        ACPI updates                                    (Andrew Grover)
o        Move pci_enable_device earlier on via audio     (Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.4-ac2
o        Remove some spurious whitespace differences     (me)
         between trees
o        Make the VIA timer reload check test avoid      (me)
         tripping on a timer as it rolls back to zero
o        Drop dasdfmt man page changes (dos ^M noise)    (me)
o        Drop experimental iee1284 pnp module loading    (me)
o        Revert pcnet32 chance causing compile errors    (me)
o        Remove wrong __init in sunhme                   (Dave Miller)
o        Fix overlarge udely in aironet4500              (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Remove non existant parameter from aironet4500  (Keith Owens)
o        Kill duplicate aic7xxx include          (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix pci2220i scsi compile bug                   (Matt Domsch)
o        Fix module exception race on Alpha              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Disable broken large vmalloc support on Alpha   (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Remove dead ia64 config entries                         (Steven Cole)
o        Add kbuild list info to MAINTAINERS             (Steven Cole)
o        linux appletalk list has moved          (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Revert wrong mount changes in 2.4.4             (Andries Brouwer)
o        Revert drivers/scsi/scsi.c change in 2.4.4      (me)
         that subtly broke about 15 drivers
o        Fix typo in slab.h                              (Pavel Machek)
o        More correct child favouring fork behaviour     (Peter Österlund)
o        Only apply pci fixups if there is a VIA 686B    (Charl Botha)
o        Fix GDT padding error introduced by PnPBIOS     (Brian Gerst)
         support
o        Fix UML build without CONFIG_PT_PROXY           (Jeff Dike)
o        dmfe wasnt calling dev_alloc_skb                (Tobias Ringstrom)
o        Further Configure.help fixups                   (Steven Cole)
o        Move pci_enable_device earlier in trident       (Marcus Meissner)

2.4.4-ac1
o        Merge with Linus 2.4.4
         | This wasnt entirely trivial so this is the only
         | stuff in this patch
         | The following stuff has been switched to the Linus branch
         | in the merge: uhci, dcache atomicity, raw I/O


2.4.3-ac14
o        Merge read-only vxfs reading support            (Christoph Hellwig)
o        Fix missing return in broken_apm_power          (Alex Riesen)
o        Remove bogus rwsem hacks from usbdevice_fs.h    (Alex Riesen)
o        Fix umount/sync_inodes race                     (Al Viro)
o        Make new xircom driver report when promisc used         (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix acenic PCI flag set up                      (Phil Copeland)
o        Make nfs smart about passing max file sizes     (Trond Myklebust)
o        Add initrd support to User Mode Linux           (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix timer irq race in User Mode Linux           (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix UML for semaphore changes                   (Jeff Dike)
o        Update thw W9966 parallel port camera driver    (Jakob Kemi)
o        Further dmfe SMP fixups                                 (Tobias Ringstrom)
o        Kernel manual pages in man9                     (Tim Waugh)
o        Work around BIOSes that implement E801 sizing
         but don't implement the CX/DX values part       (Michael Miller)
o        Fix atp driver build                            (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix irda poll handling                          (Dag Brattli)
o        Remove unused buggy pdc202xx code               (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Clean up iphase ATM                             (Arnaldo Carvalho
                                                                 de Melo)
o        Setup slave PDC20265 controller on fasttrak     (Arjan van de Ven)
         as normal IDE
o        Add __init/__initdata to most net driver   (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
         version info
o        SDDR09 config entry was missing                         (Phil Stracchino)
o        Configure.help NFS updates                (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Netfilter updates                               (Rusty Russell and co)
o        Update 2.4 ipconfig to support dhcp             (Eric Biederman)
o        es1371 setup updates/error check/pci bits       (Marcus Meissner)
o        Fix buzzing ymfpci                              (Nick Brown)
o        Update nm256 audio driver                       (Marcus Meissner)
o        Blacklist updates                               (Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.3-ac13
o        Switch to NOVERS symbols for rwsem              (me)
         | Called from asm blocks so they can't be versioned

o        Fix gcc 2.95 building on rwsem                  (Niels Jensen)
o        Fix cmsfs build                                    (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix rio build/HZ setup                     (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Fix PPP filtering dependancy in config      (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.3-ac12
o        Rewrite the i2o post handling code to fix       (me)
         DMA memory scribbles
o        Handle IOP constipation in the i2o_block layer  (me)
o        Fix bugs in the i2o table query causing reboots         (me)
         in i2o_proc on the DPT card
o        Add quirks for i2o cards that handle large I/O  (me)
         queues badly [Promise supertrak100]
o        Add cache heuristics to the I2O block driver    (me)
         | We don't cache large writes (assume seq)
         | We writeback small writes (random, metadata)

o        Disable use of writeback caching if there is    (me)
         no battery backup
o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre6
o        Further semaphore fixes                                 (David Howells)
o        Correct 'void main' to 'int main' in rtc doc    (Jesper Juhl)
o        Hopefully fix bugtraq reported netfilter ftp
         flaw
o        Fix unistd.h for ARM                            (Russell King)
o        Fix pre-emption of rt tasks                     (Nigel Gamble)
o        Fix revalidation bugs in cciss/cpqarray                 (Charles White)
         when rereading partitions
o        Acenic updates                                  (Jes Sorensen)
o        Fix MAINTAINERS sort order                      (David Woodhouse)
o        Restore DVDRAM fix with cdrom init fix too      (Jens Axboe)
o        Fix irda disconnect timeout bug                         (Dag Brattli)
o        Experimentally reap dead swap harder            (Dave Miller)
o        Remove dead low mtu checks from drivers                 (Arnaldo Carvalho de
                                                         Melo)
o        Add missing sk_chk_filter export                (Byeong-ryeol Kim)
o        Quieten pci printks, send them to log           (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Hopefully fix fastrak oops                      (me)

2.4.3-ac11
o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre5
o        Back out problem dvdram changes
o        Make reiserfs use daemonize                     (Chris Mason)
o        Fix lvm map buglet                              (Jens Axboe)
o        tms380 driver fixes                             (Adam Fritzler)
o        Fix up duplicate configs and other glitches     (Steven Cole)
o        Fix pcnet32 printk format bug                   (me)
o        ISDN driver further small update/fixes          (me)
o        Fix bounce buffer deadlock on bh allocs                 (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix fbmem merge glitch                          (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        Version string cleanups on net devices          (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update ext2 documentation                       (Andreas Dilger)
o        Add MCE support for AMD Athlon/Duron            (Dave Jones)
o        Further SDLA tidying                            (me)
o        Update Configure.help maintainers               (Steven Cole, Eric
                                                         Raymond)
o        Tulip update                                    (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix sound config to use right symnames          (Eric Raymond)
o        Further dmfe fixes                              (Tobias Ringstrom,
                                                         Frank Davis
                                                         Jeff Garzik)
o        Parport probe cleanups                          (Tim Waugh)
o        Fix a few configure items                       (Eric Raymond)
o        Fix cmsfs nonbuild                              (me)


2.4.3-ac10
o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre4
o        Apply the i960 quirk to the DPT I2O controllers         (me)
o        Etrax100 updates                                (Bjorn Wesen)
o        Fix skge memory leak                            (Jes Sorensen)
o        Handle reiserfs log overflow error              (Chris Mason)
o        Merge JFFS2 (compressing log flash file system)         (David Woodhouse)
o        Merge contributed help texts for options        (Eric Raymond,
                                                         Steven Cole)
o        Further screen blanking fixes                   (Mikael Pettersson)
o        Further binfmt elf DLINFO fixes/alignment      (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o        Fix reboot notifier unregister in aic7xxx       (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix orinoco_cs build on powerpc                         (David Gibson)
o        Neomagic audio didn't call pci_enable_device    (Marcus Meissner)
o        Remove superblock file size setting for 2Gb     (Al Viro)
         default size file systems
o        Merge UML gprof support                                 (Jeff Dike)
o        Clean up UML slip code                          (Jeff Dike)
o        Allow UML attach to already running debuggers   (Jeff Dike)
o        Reorder frame buffer probes                     (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        Add __init calls to bluesmoke.c                         (Dave Jones)
o        Add missing pci_enable_device to toshoboe       (Marcus Meissner)
o        Updated AFFS file system                        (Roman Zippel)
o        DVD-RAM fixes                                   (Jens Axboe)
o        Further sundance driver fixes                   (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix qlogicfc warning                            (Dave Miller)
o        Fix sign handling error in scsi_ioctl           (me)
         | Found by the Stanford validator

o        Fix sign handling error in af_decnet            (me)
         | Found by the Stanford validator

o        Fixed I2O posts to be uninterruptible           (me)
o        Stop IDE layer eating Supertrak slave PDC20265  (me)
o        Work around the DPT I2O controller exploding 
         when asked to quiesce.                          (me)


2.4.3-ac9
o        Fix ac8 pnpbios build bug                       (me)
o        Fix ac8 sysrq build bug                                 (me)
o        Fix uml for new semaphores                      (Jeff Dike)
o        Attempt to flush low memory buffers when short
         of bounce space on highmem machines             (Marcelo Tosatti)
o        Kill old filesystem_setup function              (Al Viro)
o        Small pnp bios tidy up                          (me)

2.4.3-ac8
o        Restore wan router features backed out by the   (me)
         sangoma stuff Linus merged
o        Clean up #ifdefs in Sangoma code a bit          (me)
o        Fix missing kmalloc return checks in Sangoma    (me)
o        Fix d_flags bit setting in knfsd                (Mikael Pettersson)
o        Turn on winchip MCE                             (Dave Jones)
o        IRDA USB driver fixups                          (Dag Brattli, 
                                         Philipp Rumpf, Jean Tourrilhes)
o        Tidy up cpu capability mask reporting           (Rogier Wolff)
o        Refix icmp gcc warnings                         (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o        Remove 2.0 ioremap hacks from ISDN layer        (Kai Germaschewski)
o        Fix request_region ranges on hisax/bkm_a8       (Roland Klabunde)
o        Add rx fifo overlfow handling to pci hisax      (Werner Cornelius)
o        Hysdn driver updates                            (Ulrich Albrecht)
o        Rewrite cisco hdlc keepalive code               (Bjoern Zeeb,
                                                         Kai Germaschewski)
o        Document CONFIG_TMSISA                          (Jochen Friedrich)
o        Fix emu10k memory leak                          (Hugh Dickins)
o        Fix i810 audio SMP lockups                      (Doug Ledford)
o        Merge binfmt_elf changes for PPC        (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o        Make sysrq keybindings a clean API              (Crutcher Dunvant)
         | I think I caught all the sysrq updates from after
         | the patch was written and got them right - please check

o        Merge PnP bios enumeration and PnP BIOS                 (Christian Schmidt,
         parport support                         (Tom Lees, David Hinds, Gunther Mayer)
o        Bit more experimental work on fixing bounce     (Marcelo Tosatti, me)
         buffers

2.4.3-ac7
o        Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset      (Andre Hedrick,
         flaws                                           George Breese)
         | Experimental version removed
         | VIA users should check this kernel -carefully-!!!!

o        Remove KT7 dma kill                             (me)
         | See above note

o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre3
o        Fix winchip1 oops in mtrr from previous change  (me)
o        Add winchip3 support to mtrr/oostore            (me)
o        Fix the Zoran driver build                      (me)
         | This is still not up to date with the master copy
         | that is intentional - first things first.

o        Fix CONFIG_WINCHIP kernel crash on cpu with     (me)
         fxsave
o        Fix UML options help bug                        (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix pte corruption in user mode linux           (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix gdb and terminal initialisation in UML      (Jeff Dike)
o        UML code cleanup                                (Jeff Dike)
o        Fix saved register corruption in UML            (Jeff Dike)
o        Add pci_disable_device                          (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix a slight bug in the parport help            (Tim Waugh)
o        Hopefully fix the sb1000 driver irq support     (James Anderson)
o        Fix missing signal lock in keventd              (Manfred Spraul)
o        Fix module build with io debugging on           (Markus Kossmann)
o        Fix dcache flag atomicty                        (Al Viro)
o        Make cs4281 use pci_set_dma_mask, clean up      (Jeff Garzik)
         wrappers
o        Use pci_set_dma_mask on maestro3                (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix 3270 driver build bug                       (Dick Hitt)
o        Fix accidental sb driver bug revert             (Jeff Garzik)
o        Clean up PCI dependancies in sound drivers      (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update synclink driver                          (Paul Fulghum)
o        rtl8139 driver update                           (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update ps/2 esdi fixes to correct DMA access    (Hal Duston)
o        More aha1542 code marked __init                         (Matthias Hanisch)
o        More random.c code marked __init                (Matthias Hanisch)

2.4.3-ac6
o        Remove tables.h include from fatfs_syms                 (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o        Update UML                                      (Jeff Dike)
o        Protect more __KERNEL__ only stuff from         (Phil Copeland)
         asm-alpha/io.h
o        Fix sound/Config.in bug with ARM                (Russell King)
o        Update network drivers for ARM bits             (Russell King)
         | 8390, pcnet_cs, tulip

o        Fix umount cleanups                             (Al Viro)
o        Merge aic7xxx driver 6.11                       (Justin Gibbs)
o        Added support for the pentium machine check     (me)
         | Also including thermal check

o        Add support for the winchip machine check       (me)
o        Fix mtrr support of the WinChip2                (me)
         | Existing code set uncachable not write gathering on winchip2

o        Support weak ordering mode on winchip cpus      (me)

2.4.3-ac5
o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre1
o        New rwsem implementation                        (David Howells)
o        Fix rwsem compile problem                       (me)
o        Fix bust_spinlocks build fail if !CONFIG_VT     (me)
o        Merge Linus 2.4.4pre2 except for ipv6
o        Fix the corner case non zeroing bug in                  (me)
         copy_from_user for x86

2.4.3-ac4
o        Fix corruption case in ext2 inode handling      (Ingo Molnar, Al Viro)
o        Merge user mode linux port                      (Jeff Dike)
o        Remove some surplus ifdefs from init/main.c     (me)
o        Update nwfpe                                    (Russell King)
o        Fix ps2esdi driver                              (Hal Duston)
o        Update ARM documentation                        (Russell King)
o        Update Symbios 53c8xx driver                    (Gérard Roudier)
o        ARM frame buffer update                                 (Russell King)
o        Update ARM bootstrap code                       (Russell King)
o        Eicon driver fix                                (Armin Schindler)
o        Update S/390 Documentation                      (Utz Bacher, Carsten
o        Update S/390 math emulation                     Otte, Holger Smolinski
o        S/390 tape driver                               Martin Schwidefsky
o        PAGEX support for Linux/390 under VM            and probably others)
o        General S/390 fixes
o        Update S/390 tty drivers
o        Update S/390 irq handling
o        Update S/390 channel driver
o        Update S/390 include files
o        Update S/390 networking drivers
o        Update S/390 DASD drivers
o        Update S/390 mm to match generic mm changes
o        Update S/390 makefiles
o        Catch another subspecies of misidentifying CD   (Bob Mende Pie)
o        Fix bluesmoke formatting                        (Solar Designer)
o        Fix rx error handling in rtl8139                (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update paths to e2fsprogs                       (Steven Cole)
o        Fix proc alloc map locking                      (Tom Leete)
o        Console blanking fix (continued..)              (Mikael Pettersson)
o        ARM tools update                                (Russell King)
o        Update ARM includes                             (Russell King)
o        Update ARM sound drivers                        (Russell King)
o        Update the shark ARM support                    (Alexander Schulz)
o        Update SA1100 support                           (Russell King,
                                                         Nicolas Pitre)
o        Update ARM make and config files                (Russell King)
o        Update ARM mm/fault handling                    (Russell King)
o        Update ARM network driver config                (Russell King)
o        Misc ARM updates                                (Russell King)
o        Update ARM footbridge code                      (Russell King)
o        EBSA ISA bus fixups                             (Russell King)
o        Fix agp copy_from_user bug                      (Dawson Engler)
o        Correct devfs docs on /dev/sg                   (Herbert Xu)
o        /dev/sg doc update                              (Douglas Gilbert)

2.4.3-ac3
o        Fix console unblank from suspend bug            (Mikael Pettersson)
o        Fix unmap_buffer() race                                 (Al Viro)
o        Add a proper dmi blacklist                      (me)
o        Fix alpha build for new mm changes              (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o        Resync setup-bus.c to pick up Alpha Noritake    (Ivan Kokshaysky)
         fixes
o        Fix swap accounting for major faults            (Marcelo Tosatti)
o        Add some bigendian support and voodoo5 support  (Ani Joshi)
         to tdfxfb
o        Fix failing build with CONFIG_VT=n              (Jason McMullan)
o        Fix some corner cases in iso9660 support        (Andreas Eckleder)
         for symlinks and XA attriubtes
o        Fix NTFS and quota sparc build problems on -ac  (Steve Ralston)
o        Resync to the Linus serial.c + B9600 fix        (me)
o        Avoid nasties with OHCI controller gets no IRQ  (Arjan van de Ven)
         assigned
o        Pull problem lance change                       (Jeff Garzik)
o        Fix SMP lockup in usbdevfs                      (Tony Hoyle)
o        Firestream atm update                   (Patrick van de Lageweg)

2.4.3-ac2
o        Add the VIA C3 to the mtrr/setup code           (Dave Jones)
o        Report PAE mode oopses better                   (Ingo Molnar)
o        Fix zap_low_mappings on PAE                     (Hugh Dickins)
o        Tidy up parport resource handling, fix bug      (Tim Waugh)
o        Add series 6 backpack driver support            (Tim Waugh)
o        Make lockd use daemonize()                      (Paul Mundt)
o        Fix aicasm to specify -I flags needed on some   (Mads Jørgensen)
         distributions
o        Add docbook manual on bus independant I/O       (Matthew Wilcox)
         | + a few additional notes I added

o        Make the VIA superIO driver honour the          (Tim Waugh)
         irq/dma settings passed
o        Update mpt fusion drivers                       (Steve Ralston)
o        Add reiserfs maintainer entries                         (Steven Cole)
o        Experimental driver for communcation class USB  (Brad Hards)
         | eg Broadcom and Ericsson USB cable modems

o        I2O updates, report SMART errors on i2o_block   (Boji Kannanthanam)
o        Fix shm locking, races on swapping, accounting  (Stephen Tweedie)
         and swapout of already mapped pages
o        Clean up REPORTING-BUGS                                 (Steven Cole)
o        Fix ACM handling of CLOCAL                      (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Fix sparc64 module_map/vfree bug                (Hugh Dickins)
o        Fix scsi race on requeued requests              (Mark Hemment)
o        Tulip driver update                             (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update bmac and gmac driver                     (Cort Dougan)
o        Winbond w9966cf webcam parport driver           (Jakob Kemi)

2.4.3-ac1
o        Merge Linus 2.4.3 final, diff versus 2.4.3      (me)

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Alan Cox 
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer                        Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary                 http://www.brainbench.com

– By Dan Berkes –

Minnesota-based CodeWeavers is almost ready to release its new Crossover Plug-in, enabling Linux users to take advantage of Windows-based Web browser plug-ins, including those for Quicktime and Shockwave.
CodeWeavers is no stranger to the task of narrowing the feature gap between Windows and Linux operating systems. One of the company’s core offerings is CodeWeavers Wine, an enhanced version of a program that allows Linux users to run Windows exectuables without having Windows installed on their systems. While desktop users will no doubt benefit from using the Crossover Plug-in, that’s not the market that CodeWeavers has targeted.

CodeWeavers wants the Internet appliance market to sit up and take notice of its new baby.

“We feel that this product has great potential [for the embedded market],” says Jeremy White, company founder and CEO. In order to get the Windows features so many users require, embedded systems manufacturers are faced with a significant investment in licensing and other fees to obtain the Windows operating system.

Crossover brings a broad array of multimedia plug-in offerings to Linux, enabling Netscape, Mozilla, and Konqueror to run almost any plug-in designed for Windows-based browsers — but without the mind-blowing costs of doing business with Redmond. The main requirement for running Crossover is a working Wine installation. Once Wine is installed, Windows plug-ins can be used without the major hassle or trauma involved with a lengthy configuration process.

White admits that the size of Wine might be a turnoff for some developers. “We will probably use select parts of Wine, for those instances where someone doesn’t want or need all of Wine, but just enough to run the Crossover Plug-in.”

The effort to create the technology that drives Crossover was no walk in the park. “It was quite a challenge,” says White. “We’re trying to convince a set of Windows products to run on Linux, and sometimes they didn’t behave the way they should, particularly Shockwave.” White says working with that particular chunk of multimedia caused a few hair-raising problems for a short period of time, but were eventually resolved.

CodeWeavers has high hopes for its Crossover, hoping that it generates sales — and more importantly, revenue — for the 20-person company. Although the company remains committed to Open Source through its contributions to Wine, it is, after all, a company and not a charitable foundation. “We’ve got to have a business model, and Crossover is a part of that business model,” says White.

White points out that the Crossover Plug-in is not a part of Wine, but a program that links to Wine in order to run. The product will be sold to embedded manufacturers for use in their products. As for the desktop version, White says there’s a chance that it might be released under the Artistic License, but the matter has yet to be resolved.

Also in the works is a program tenatively titled Crossover Display. That application would allow a Linux-based Internet appliance to start up Windows applications installed on neighboring computers with a mere click of a button or stroke of a keyboard — without Windows installed on the appliance, of course. There are also plans for a Windows/Linux application server for release sometime in 2002.

The Crossover browser Plug-in for embedded devices is scheduled for release on Tuesday, May 15. The desktop distribution will be released later this summer; NewsForge will test a beta version within the next few weeks.

The Washington Post takes a look at the Motorola i85s, packed with a “profusion of time-sucking programs” including a datebook, voice memo recorder, calculator, Web browser, screen savers, games, and more stuff you can install if you want. It’s all thanks to Java, or in this case, Micro Java.

CNET News.com reports that handheld maker Palm will slash the price on its wireless Palm VIIx. The new price is already in affect at Palm’s online store; it should be announced for other retailers this afternoon.

CNET News.com reports that handheld maker Palm will slash the price on its wireless Palm VIIx. The new price is already in affect at Palm’s online store; it should be announced for other retailers this afternoon.

An anonymous reader pointed us in the direction of a story on ZDNet that confirms the release of the Opera 5 for Linux as happening this Tuesday. The new browser promises to offer the same features as its Windows cousin.

ZDNet News: “IBM Microelectronics is counting on its research powerhouse to push it
ahead of Motorola in the lucrative market for chips with PowerPC processors
that reach the 2GHz mark.”

PR Newswire: “Conversay, a global leader in
speech technology solutions for both mobile and traditional Internet access
devices, announced it will provide the speech interface for the Linux-based
YOPY(R) PDA system, making it the first Linux PDA to employ a speech
interface. G.Mate, from Seoul, South Korea, and CenterComm of
San Diego, Calif., developed the YOPY system.”

mariuZZ writes The Firebird (open source database) is doing well

before the version 1.0 is given to people

they have a lot of ports (Darwin,Solaris,Linux and of course WindoZZe )

but they have a big problem

no cool logo :o(

so if you know enough of Grokking Gimp

or have suprarealistic Pain’Shop**o skills

do something so people to look at..

and be loved forever ;o).

I love linuX not only because it’s stable (if you don’t change the kernel and ..panik )

but even for the penguin logo (it’s so cool.)

Here is the house of Firebird baby:

http://firebird.sourceforge.net“