Miscellaneous Included Packages

kernel-BOOT: The version of the Linux kernel used on installation boot disks.

Name:kernel-BOOT Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.4.21 License:GPLv2
Release:47.0.1.EL URL:
Summary
This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux kernel. This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are turned off because of the size constraints of floppy disks.

Arch: i386

Download:kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.i386.rpm
Build Date:Thu Oct 19 10:26:03 2006
Packager:
Size:10.53 MiB

Changelog

* Fri Oct 13 19:00:00 2006 Ernie Petrides <petrides{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL
- fix buflen assignment for DVD BDA read requests (Chip Coldwell)
- prevent write permission w/read-only shm segments (Ernie Petrides)
- fix clock drift by disabling C1 clock ramping on AMD (Prarit Bhargava)
- prevent possible deadlock with shmat()/shm-rmid races (Sachin Prabhu)
- prevent smbfs chroot hole by prohibiting backslashes (Peter Staubach)
- prevent potential memory corruption from ATM/clip_mkip() (Thomas Graf)
- add zero-padding logic for s390,x copy_from_user() faults (Jan Glauber)
* Wed Jul 5 19:00:00 2006 Ernie Petrides <petrides{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-47.EL
- fix x86 cpu enumeration regression caused in -41.EL (Jim Paradis)
- fix ptrace_notify() regression caused in -40.10.EL (Ernie Petrides)
* Fri Jun 23 19:00:00 2006 Ernie Petrides <petrides{%}redhat{*}com> kernel-2.4.21-46.EL
- fix double PCI slot scan regression caused in -37.8.EL (Brian Maly)
- fix MD list locking regression caused in -40.10 (Doug Ledford)

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