[CentOS-announce] CEEA-2013:X015 Xen4CentOS kernel Enhancement Update

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CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2013:X015 (Xen4CentOS)

 

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently

syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

 

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X86_64

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c0e393639da8712303ae87a379fbc7584b4a5b20229473c73e640653702da4db e1000e-2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

436669a1b8d5a71a7b6f8432dc05916d1779a7d0a3cc78221a2be147756bda85 kernel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

9d30f870eebed13633a29ba7f57807e82486da0e29b51bbfe9e56feb76623b6b kernel-devel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

c29b37bd41b8e15476e62a5319fce3cdd1dc6705089ac8101d28c5cab5a29b6d kernel-doc-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm

18d0d9236fe801263004f8481256b1c991f9b5139fa432e8620dbc3a27978ea6 kernel-firmware-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm

080b1a8904625d50e83cfcebc7c36551c7a2d3e05292a438204042b6c99dc0a8 kernel-headers-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

d1d510730f6fd668bd93be42cb5cc178504352b2603e7e383de0219c1f27aa64 perf-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

 

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Source:

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95bcf551904667c4e5753da1b800febfac0319585a5702e896ca6b41065b3730 e1000e-2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm

2ab3e14b38837b5239cf01d30f8fa72a20ea2956a9758a7a771e162aa128fe57 kernel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm

 

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Kernel Changelog info from the SPEC file:

 

* Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes 3.10.20-11

- modified patch patch130 to add all bnx2 drivers

 

* Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes 3.10.20-10

- upgraded to upstream version 3.10.20

- removed sources 4, 5, 6, and 7 to instead roll in all bnx2 and bnx2x

firmware files

instead of doing them individually

- created sources 8 and 9 that are tarballs of the latest bnx2 and bnx2x

firmware files

from kernel.org

- modified to spec file to extract sources 8 and 9 and build all fw files in

bnx2 and bnx2x dirs

 

* Wed Nov 13 2013 Johnny Hughes 3.10.18-10

- upgraded to upstream version 3.10.18

- modified/enabled patch130 to work with the 3.10.x tree (new broadcom

drivers)

 

* Tue Nov 12 2013 Johnny Hughes 3.10.12-10

- Move to the 3.10.12 LTS Kernel

- add /etc/bash_completion.d/perf to the kernel-perf package

- removed all patches except 118 and 119 to add blktap25 as they are upstream

- modified patches 118 and 119 to apply to the 3.10.x kernel tree

 

e1000e Changelog info from the SPEC file:

 

* Mon Nov 25 2013 Johnny Hughes - 2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt

- build against version 3.10.20 kernel

 

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NOTE: This is a rebase of the kernel for the Xen4CentOS6 project from

the 3.4.x LTS tree to the 3.10.x LTS tree.

 

NOTE: You must run /usr/bin/grub-bootxen.sh to update the file

/boot/grub/grub.conf (or you must update that file manually)

to boot the new kernel on a dom0 xen machine. See for info:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart

 

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Johnny Hughes

CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ }

irc: hughesjr, #centos at irc.freenode.net

 

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