Kernel release status

Posted Feb 13, 2003 16:34 UTC (Thu) by blaz (guest, #3591)
Parent article: Kernel release status

Yes the ide work now being put into 2.4.20-preX-acX is essential. Ide stuff in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 broke some apsects of ide dma on our older intel bx board servers. We're talking hard lockups that required reboots. Not nice.

When I complained to Hedrick I got this back from him:

QUOTE
The "-acX" trees have the corrected driver work from myself and reviewed
by Alan. The last stable tree was 2.4.18 before people pushed stuff that
was not validated.
UNQUOTE

Hopefully all this will be cleared up in 2.4.21, as the last 2.4.20-preX-acX I tried fixed the ide but broke some aspects of memory management leading to process oops. But at least the whole PC didn't lock up.