From: Dan A. <da...@co...> - 2004-09-10 14:43:24
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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... |