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Kernel 2.6 based: October 2005 stream

 

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2006-03-28 kernel 2.6.16 feature patch 01 ("October 2005") superseded

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linux-2.6.16-s390-01-october2005.tar.gz / MD5 ... accumulated patch, recommended (2006-03-28)

linux-2.6.16-s390-01-october2005-patches.tar.gz / MD5 ... single patches, recommended (2006-03-28)

With the patches in this tarball, the "October 2005 stream" kernel 2.6.16 has all applicable features previously provided for the "April 2004 stream" kernel 2.6.5 and new functionality:

  • 3590 tape device driver now provided in Open Source -- no longer as an OCO module
  • zfcp: statistics-interface added -- used to gather performance data
  • zfcp: support for the zfcp HBA API -- needed for SAN discovery tool san_disc
  • ctcmpc: network device driver supporting SNA MPC CTC-channels -- needed to run Communications Server for Linux on zSeries (see Communications Server for Linux on zSeries homepage)

Everybody should apply this patch.

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

linux-2.6.16.tar.gz (from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-base-october2005.diff (IBM)
+ linux-2.6.16-s390-01-october2005.diff (IBM)

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