Fedora 7 Update: kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2936.fc7

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-2258 2007-09-28 21:24:58.211147 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kernel-xen-2.6 Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.6.20 Release : 2936.fc7 URL : [] Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - Add fix for bug #294011 (floating point corruption) (changeset 8c24767501ff from Xen 3.1.1) - Fix sleazy-fpu implementation to actually avoid unnecessary traps on fpu-intensive programs - Hypervisor-side of fix for bug #248398: HVM domain hangs during (F-7) install. Backport of fix from xen-unstable: 15239:656b8175f4f2. This replaces xen-vpic-set-vector.patch, that didn't go upstream and didn't have its user-space part added to the xen package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Sep 21 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Add fix for bug #294011 (floating point corruption) (changeset 8c24767501ff from Xen 3.1.1) - Fix sleazy-fpu implementation to actually avoid on fpu-intensive programs * Thu Sep 13 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Hypervisor-side of fix for bug #248398: HVM domain hangs during (F-7) install. Backport of fix from xen-unstable: 15239:656b8175f4f2. This replaces xen-vpic-set-vector.patch, that didn't go upstream and didn't have its user-space part added to the xen package. * Wed Sep 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Disable CONFIG_HIGHPTE. It is not reliable and causes performance loss under Xen * Thu Aug 30 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Provides: xen-hypervisor-abi = 3.1 (bug #269581) * Tue Aug 14 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Xenoprof: fix DOMAIN_SWITCH_CODE value according to oprofile 0.9.3 (Markus Armbruster) * Fri Aug 10 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Add af_packet.c checksum patches from Herbert Xu, to avoid problems with DHCP server and clients running on the same Xen host * Thu Aug 9 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Add linux-2.6-xen-backwards-time.patch from linux-2.6.18-xen.hg changeset 87bb8705768a. This should fix bug #236307 * Wed Aug 8 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Update xen patch to 3.1.0 * Mon Jul 16 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Make xenblk wait to the disk to be added (bug #248462) - Rebase to 2.6.20.14 * Wed Jul 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PM from acpi poweroff code (fix bug #241381) * Mon Jun 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Added fix to bug #243756: linux-2.6-xen-fix-nosegneg-detection.patch * Thu May 24 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com&gt; - Disabled CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, as the xen code doesn't support it. See bug #239601 - HV: allow HVM virtual PICs to have their interrupt vector reprogrammed (part of fix for rawhide FV booting on rawhide Xen) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #248398 - fully virtualized hvm domain hangs during install https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248398 [ 2 ] Bug #294011 - Mouse pointer gets stuck on the left side of display, under Xen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 0a13f05272e4a258092de230588cb5e4664a524c kernel-xen-2.6-doc-2.6.20-2936.fc7.noarch.rpm c0035f3bd98ec7fae194ac9d98ce58c8090ff137 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7.i686.rpm af35366bfaee9e403410fcef42f94811373bc157 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7.i686.rpm 3b5978d92cd9b6ecfb98b8ede35d2e06ac510557 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7.x86_64.rpm 5bc82b2687d727e074bbcf66ac18f1f977e57c12 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7.x86_64.rpm 977928ff6703914c139f74710fc51094b800a406 kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2936.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel-xen-2.6' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------