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Linux 2.4.18 Released

Posted by michael on from the power-of-pure-penguins dept.

Kourino writes: "Marcelo announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"

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  1. 2.4.19-pre1 is out now. by dietz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the ChangeLog.

    That was quick. (It includes a lot more stuff than just the patch missing from rc4).

  2. Re:Sience this patch seems mostly for the Sparc. by bconway · · Score: 5, Informative

    The patch in -rc4 causes major problems on all non-x86 platforms. This includes Alpha, SPARC, and PPC, just to name a few.

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  3. Linux/SPARC by uzi · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe the problem is on sparc64 (and not sparc32). It's a trivial patch... just a few lines, so it's easy to have been overlooked.

    Anyone using a SPARC/Linux machine that wants the latest and greatest should always turn to the
    vger.samba.org sparc/linux kernel cvs tree. It's always got the latest stuff for both 64-bit and 32-bit SPARCs (and networking as well).

    That said, 64-bit SPARC machines should run fine with the recent kernels. For the 32-bit SPARC machines, I can only comment on the sun4m and sun4c machine. Currently, the sun4m machines should boot and be ok... the sun4c machines do not.

    sun4m machines: ss20, ss10, ss5, ss4, lx, classic, javastations
    sun4c machines: ss2, ss1+, ss1, ipx, ipc, slc, elc

  4. Re:How about a new Slashdot feature. by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a slashbox available with this information. Granted, it won't be in the top right, but it will be on a logged-in user's home page.

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  5. Re:Just give me a kernel that turns off my compute by Adrian+Voinea · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep... just turn on APM this way:

    make menuconfig
    General Setup -> Power Management support -> Advanced Power Management BIOS support -> Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off

    This should fix it :)