Re: [gentoo-dev] New 2.4.18_pre3 (2.4.18_pre3+mjc+XFS) kernel and Athlon bug workaround

[Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@SuxOS.org>]

On 18 Jan 2002 21:26:15 -0700
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> If you have an Athlon system, be sure this email in its entirety.  A
> potential CPU bug fix workaround is covered at the bottom.
> 
> I've spent the last few days working on a new kernel for Gentoo Linux. 
> This kernel is *excellent* (it's basically the -mjc kernel plus XFS) and
> contains tons of security-related enhancements, including:
<snip>

Nice patch :)

There are some redundant files, though:

root:/usr/src/linux# find . -name \*\~
./fs/intermezzo/vfs.c~
./fs/buffer.c~
./fs/dquot.c~
./fs/inode.c~
./fs/namei.c~
./init/main.c~
./kernel/ksyms.c~
./mm/filemap.c~
./mm/page_alloc.c~
./mm/slab.c~
./mm/vmalloc.c~
./mm/vmscan.c~
./include/linux/fs.h~
./include/linux/mm.h~
./include/linux/pagemap.h~
./include/linux/slab.h~
./include/linux/sysctl.h~
./drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~
./drivers/char/serial.c~
./arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~
./arch/i386/kernel/irq.c~
./arch/i386/kernel/process.c~
./arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~
./arch/i386/Makefile~
./arch/i386/config.in~
./arch/i386/defconfig~
./arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~
./arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig~
./arch/ppc/configs/gemini_defconfig~
./arch/ppc/configs/ibmchrp_defconfig~
./arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig~
./arch/ppc/defconfig~
./arch/m68k/vmlinux-sun3.lds~
./arch/m68k/vmlinux.lds~
./arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in~
./arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in~
./arch/s390/defconfig~
./arch/s390x/defconfig~
./Documentation/Configure.help~
./MAINTAINERS~
./Makefile~
root:/usr/src/linux# grep \~\ linux linux-gentoo-2.4.18-pre3.patch 
diff -urN linux-orig/Documentation/Configure.help~
linux/Documentation/Configure.help~ diff -urN linux-orig/MAINTAINERS~
linux/MAINTAINERS~ diff -urN linux-orig/Makefile~ linux/Makefile~
diff -urN linux-orig/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in~
linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in~ linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in~
diff -urN linux-orig/arch/i386/Makefile~ linux/arch/i386/Makefile~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/i386/config.in~ linux/arch/i386/config.in~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/i386/defconfig~ linux/arch/i386/defconfig~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~ linux/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c~ linux/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c~ linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c~ diff
-urN linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~ linux/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~ diff
-urN linux-orig/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/m68k/vmlinux-sun3.lds~ linux/arch/m68k/vmlinux-sun3.lds~ diff
-urN linux-orig/arch/m68k/vmlinux.lds~ linux/arch/m68k/vmlinux.lds~ diff -urN
linux-orig/arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig~
linux/arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig~[...]

Regards :)

-- 
Joachim Blaabjerg
styx@SuxOS.org
www.SuxOS.org