-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-9501 2012-06-15 23:08:14 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.4.2 Release : 4.fc17 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel 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: The 3.4.2 stable update contains a number of bug fixes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 13 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patches to fix NFS shutdown panic (rhbz 830862) * Tue Jun 12 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - build in RTC modules on arm boards as the module gets loaded after the rtc is read * Mon Jun 11 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add virtual provides for kernel-module to kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 770444) - Add patch to fix xen domU 32bit (rhbz 829016) - Add two upstream commits to fix flaky iwlwifi (rhbz 825491) * Sat Jun 9 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 3.4.2-1 - Linux v3.4.2 * Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Enable HV assisted KVM on ppc64 * Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport edid header fixup threashold patch from Adam Jackson (rhbz 582559) * Wed Jun 6 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> 3.4.1-2 - add patch from calxeda to enable the highbank kernel to boot - on real hardware * Tue Jun 5 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to register omapdrm to the platforms so that we get - working console framebuffer and X on panda and beagle boards * Tue Jun 5 2012 Peter Robinson <[email protected]> - Update ARM config options for 3.4 - Enable MTD/UBI/JFFS2 on ARM platforms * Mon Jun 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 3.4.1-1 - Linux v3.4.1 * Mon Jun 4 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Disable 32bit NX emulation. * Sat Jun 2 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.4.0-1 - Linux 3.4 - Stable queue updates * Wed May 30 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2390 huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure (rhbz 824352 824345) * Fri May 25 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> - Don't manually customise tuners/frontends (rhbz 825203) * Thu May 24 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2372 mm: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs populate SMP race (rhbz 822821 822825) * Wed May 23 2012 Adam Jackson <[email protected]> - drm-i915-lvds-dual-channel.patch: Scrape dual-channel-ness for LVDS out of the VBT, rather than just making things up. (#819343) * Mon May 21 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.7-1 - Linux 3.3.7 - Disable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 32bit builds. Turn back on for 3.4 * Fri May 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Additional fixes for CVE-2011-4131 (rhbz 822874 822869) * Thu May 17 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix rtlwifi async firmware load race condition (rhbz 822120) - Enable cpu_idle drivers for ppc64/pseries (requested by Ben Herrenschmidt) * Wed May 16 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - set arch for arm kernel to VEXPRESS allows v7 emulation - enable SMP everywhere but disable on kirkwood as its up only * Wed May 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.6-3 - fix rtl8187: ->brightness_set can not sleep (rhbz 795176) * Wed May 16 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Update the vgaarb patches to pick up a small switcheroo fix from airlied * Tue May 15 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to setup usb correctly on beagleboards - allows networking to work * Tue May 15 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fixup atl1c register programming (rhbz 749276) * Mon May 14 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.6-1 - Linux 3.3.6 * Mon May 14 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Enable DRM_VIA again per Adam Jackson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #830862 - Kernel panic at reboot (possibly NFS related). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830862 [ 2 ] Bug #770444 - RFE: kernel-modules-extra should get added to installonlypkgs default list https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770444 [ 3 ] Bug #829016 - kernel 3.4.0-1 does not boot on xen domU, unable to handle kernel paging request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829016 [ 4 ] Bug #825491 - kernel 3.4.0 iwlwifi flaky https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825491 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line. 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