At 15:21 15-10-02 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Is there documentation somewhere that explains the changes to 2.4.19 that > > make it better for that purpose? > >The 2.4.18-5 kernel introduced some safety checks in the VM subsystem that >were triggered when exiting an X session while using 3D acceleration with >the Intel i810/i815 chipset. Additionally, there was a difficult to trigger >race in the dcache of the file system subsystem.
And I think here we have a good reason for folks wanting to discuss those issues on this list, even though they're general Linux. I don't think our z900's use i810/i815 chipsets, so we may have less benefit from these patches. Sure, I understand more things will get fixed in new kernels, but if new bugs were not introduced as well (otherwise there would never be a next version). In either case, I believe you need a strategy how to deal with such issues. One way to deal with it is only fix known issues between releases, and do a lot of testing on a new release. From what I see the distributors do something like that too. Rob
