Package kernel-image-std-pae: Information

    Source package: kernel-image-std-pae
    Version: 2.6.18-alt12.M40.3
    Build time:  Jul 16, 2008, 06:14 PM
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    License: GPL
    Summary: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
    Description: 
    This package contains the Linux kernel that is used to boot and run
    your system.
    
    Most hardware drivers for this kernel are built as modules.  Some of
    these drivers are built separately from the kernel; they are available
    in separate packages (kernel-modules-*-std-pae).
    
    The "std" variant of kernel packages is a generic 2.6.x kernel which
    should support wide range of hardware, but does not contain patches
    which are useful only for some special applications (and may have
    undesirable side effects in other cases).  This is the default 2.6.x
    kernel variant for ALT Linux distributions.
    
    The "std-pae" variant supports SMP systems, but should also work on
    uniprocessor systems without noticeable overhead (the SMP alternatives
    code automatically removes most of the SMP overhead if an uniprocessor
    system is detected).
    
    This kernel is configured for i686 (Intel Pentium Pro or higher)
    processors and supports up to 64 GB physical RAM using PAE mode.
    WARNING: This kernel will not boot on processors without PAE support
    (this includes old Pentium-class processors and first variants of
    Intel Pentium M); use the "std-smp" kernel variant on such systems.
    
    You may also want to use the "std-smp" kernel even if your processor
    supports PAE, but you have 4 GB or less physical RAM - in this case
    using PAE is not required, but PAE introduces some overhead in memory
    management and is incompatible with the Software Suspend support.

    List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
    kernel-headers-modules-std-pae (i586)
    kernel-headers-std-pae (i586)
    kernel-image-std-pae (i586)
    kernel-modules-oss-std-pae (i586)



    ACL:
    Michail Yakushin
    @kernel

      1. module-init-tools >= 3.1
      2. kernel-source-2.6.18 = 1.0.0
      3. dev86
      4. libdb4-devel
      5. flex
      6. rpm-build-kernel
      7. gcc4.1

    Last changed


    July 10, 2008 Michail Yakushin 2.6.18-alt12.M40.3
    - Randomize UDP port allocation (mitigates CVE-2008-1447).
    - Fix possible information leek (CVE-2008-0598, CVE-2008-2729).
    - Fix unwinder (patch from RHEL).
    - aic94xx: update for v28 firmware (thx Wu, Gilbert).
    - aic94xx: Supermicro motherboards support (thx Sergey Kononenko).
    June 10, 2008 Michail Yakushin 2.6.18-alt12.M40.2
    May 6, 2008 Michail Yakushin 2.6.18-alt12.M40.1