[coLinux-users] snapshot 20040910 (0.6.2-pre1)

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

Hello,

I've released a snapshot to bring us a step closer to 0.6.2-final.

    http://www.colinux.org/snapshots/coLinux-20040910.exe

The problem with 0.6.2 is that people are expected to move from 2.4.x 
based coLinux system to 2.6.x based system on upgrade from 0.6.1 and 
prir. Many of the newbie users would wonder why their Gentoo stops 
working on this move (technically a script breakage over the /dev/cobdX-
to-/dev/cobd/X notation change caused by devfs). 

Actually I think we should come with some sort of standard for a coLinux 
root file system, e.g a /etc/colinux file that could hint a fix-me-up 
initrd what's going on instead of auto-guessing.

Apropos initrd, this snapshot contains a beta version of an initrd 
image that installs the kernel modules for the supplied vmlinux unto 
the root filesystem (thanks George). You can test it simply by 
adding the element: <initrd path="initrd.gz" />.

Anyway, the list of changes from the last snapshot which was quite a 
while ago (20040710) includes:

  * If the MAC address is unspecified, a random MAC is choosed 
    using the familiar TAP prefix (00:FF:XX:XX:XX:XX).
  * Bug fix: Reception and delivery of network packets bigger than
    2kb.
  * Bug fix: Consoles and/or other daemons fail to connect to 
    colinux-daemon on startup (this is Windows only).
  * Bug fix: Stop reboots where different gcc compiler versions are 
    used to compile linux.sys & vmlinux, with an error/warning 
    (George Boutwell).
  * Enhanced coLinux keyboard handling support (sends raw scan codes
    from Windows to linux) (Nuno Lucas).
  * Bug fix: bad initialization caused unexpected SIGFPE for programs 
    compiled with -mpentium4 (me)

You might also want to take a look at the monotone ChangeLog (under
the snapshot directory for the monotone-declined users).

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@co...