Fedora 7 Update: kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2936.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2258
2007-09-28 21:24:58.211147
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Name        : kernel-xen-2.6
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.6.20
Release     : 2936.fc7
URL         : []
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
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.

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Update Information:

- Add fix for bug #294011 (floating point corruption)
  (changeset 8c24767501ff from Xen 3.1.1)
- Fix sleazy-fpu implementation to actually avoid unnecessary traps on fpu-intensive  programs
- Hypervisor-side of fix for bug #248398: HVM domain hangs during (F-7) install. Backport of fix from xen-unstable: 15239:656b8175f4f2. This replaces xen-vpic-set-vector.patch, that didn't go upstream and didn't have its user-space part added to the xen package.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 21 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Add fix for bug #294011 (floating point corruption)
  (changeset 8c24767501ff from Xen 3.1.1)
- Fix sleazy-fpu implementation to actually avoid on fpu-intensive
  programs
* Thu Sep 13 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Hypervisor-side of fix for bug #248398: HVM domain hangs during (F-7)
  install. Backport of fix from xen-unstable: 15239:656b8175f4f2.
  This replaces xen-vpic-set-vector.patch, that didn't go upstream and
  didn't have its user-space part added to the xen package.
* Wed Sep 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Disable CONFIG_HIGHPTE. It is not reliable and causes performance loss
  under Xen
* Thu Aug 30 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Provides: xen-hypervisor-abi = 3.1 (bug #269581)
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Xenoprof: fix DOMAIN_SWITCH_CODE value according to oprofile 0.9.3
  (Markus Armbruster)
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Add af_packet.c checksum patches from Herbert Xu, to avoid problems with
  DHCP server and clients running on the same Xen host
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Add linux-2.6-xen-backwards-time.patch from linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
  changeset 87bb8705768a. This should fix bug #236307
* Wed Aug  8 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Update xen patch to 3.1.0
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Make xenblk wait to the disk to be added (bug #248462)
- Rebase to 2.6.20.14
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PM from acpi poweroff code (fix bug #241381)
* Mon Jun 11 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Added fix to bug #243756: linux-2.6-xen-fix-nosegneg-detection.patch
* Thu May 24 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Disabled CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, as the xen code doesn't support it.
  See bug #239601
- HV: allow HVM virtual PICs to have their interrupt vector reprogrammed
  (part of fix for rawhide FV booting on rawhide Xen)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #248398 - fully virtualized hvm domain hangs during install
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248398
  [ 2 ] Bug #294011 - Mouse pointer gets stuck on the left side of display, under Xen
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294011
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Updated packages:

0a13f05272e4a258092de230588cb5e4664a524c kernel-xen-2.6-doc-2.6.20-2936.fc7.noarch.rpm
c0035f3bd98ec7fae194ac9d98ce58c8090ff137 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7.i686.rpm
af35366bfaee9e403410fcef42f94811373bc157 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7.i686.rpm
3b5978d92cd9b6ecfb98b8ede35d2e06ac510557 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.20-2936.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5bc82b2687d727e074bbcf66ac18f1f977e57c12 kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7.x86_64.rpm
977928ff6703914c139f74710fc51094b800a406 kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.20-2936.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kernel-xen-2.6' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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