
ANNOUNCE: linux 0.99 patchlevel 8 available
Yet another kernel release is now available on nic.funet.fi in the usual
place (pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus for those of you that have already
forgotten), and will probably show up on the other ftp-sites within a
day or two. There are two new files:
linux-0.99.8.tar.z - the full gzipped and tarred source-tree of the
linux kernel.
linux-0.99.patch8.z - unified diffs against the last official release
(0.99pl7).
There is no SLIP or new networking routines in this kernel despite the
rumors that have been flying around - the main changes to 0.99.7 are
(some of them were in 0.99pl7A as well):
- the signal handling code has been extensively reworked, and should be
POSIX as well as clean.
- dosfs is upgraded to version 12 (Werner Almesberger)
- xiafs is upgraded to the latest version (Qi Xia)
- ext2fs is upgraded to the latest version (Remy Card/Stephen Tweedie)
- FPU-emulation patches for v86 mode and precision rounding (Bill
Metzenthen)
- SCSI patches by various people (Eric Youngdale & co)
- XT harddisk support (Pat Mackinlay)
- new trial code to try to handle 387 lockups on some systems more
gracefully.
- keyboard, lp and serial driver fixes
- various minor changes (mounting root read-only, bootup messages
cleaned up etc)
As always, comments/bugs etc are encouraged,
Linus
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