Kernel 2.6 based: Archive: October 2005 stream

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linux-2.6.13-s390-base-october2005.tar.gz / MD5 ... accumulated patch, recommended (superseded) (2005-10-14)

linux-2.6.13-s390-base-october2005-patches.tar.gz / MD5 ... single patches, recommended (superseded) (2005-10-14)

This tarball contains the initial kernel 2.6.13 patches for the Linux on System z9 and zSeries "October 2005 stream" with bug-fixes.

With this base-patch, the "October 2005 stream" has all (applicable) bug-fixes previously provided for the "April 2004 stream" kernel 2.6.5.

Kernel 2.6.13 contains a lot of new functionality, of which - from the Linux on System z9 and zSeries perspective - the following items are of special interest:

• Improved kernel machine check handling
• Optimization of the s390 debug feature
• Adjustment of CPU accounting
• Kernel-support for user space access to CP commands (via vmcp in s390 tools 1.5)
• The infrastructure for execute-in-place in memory management, virtual file system layer, and block device layer is provided in kernel 2.6.13 (and no longer needs to be added per separate patch as in the "April 2004 stream"). EXT2 now exploits the execute-in-place infrastructure.
• DASD support for write barriers

Furthermore, the kerntypes for this kernel are included.

Everybody should apply this patch.

To create the complete linux kernel sources, the following patches need to be applied in sequence:

linux-2.6.13.tar.gz (see www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6)
+ linux-2.6.13-s390-base-october2005.diff (IBM)