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EL6 Xen kernel updates
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By Steven Haigh 1 min read

I’ve just posted some new kernel-xen RPMs based on 2.6.32.46.

Changelog:

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* Sat Sep 17 2011 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
- Revert "xen/apic: Provide an 'apic_xen' to set the override the apic-&gt;[read|write] for all cases."
- Merged in 2.6.32.46 fixes:
      igb: Fix lack of flush after register write and before delay
      fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message
      drm/ttm: fix ttm_bo_add_ttm(user) failure path
      x86, UV: Remove UV delay in starting slave cpus
      x86-32, vdso: On system call restart after SYSENTER, use int $0x80
      futex: Fix regression with read only mappings
      ALSA: ac97: Add HP Compaq dc5100 SFF(PT003AW) to Headphone Jack Sense whitelist
      ALSA: snd_usb_caiaq: track submitted output urbs
      befs: Validate length of long symbolic links.
      fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops
      perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration
      mm: fix wrong vmap address calculations with odd NR_CPUS values
      ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Correct offset fields of outbound iso_frame_desc
      hwmon: (ibmaem) add missing kfree
      atm: br2864: sent packets truncated in VC routed mode
      USB: Serial: Added device ID for Qualcomm Modem in Sagemcom's HiLo3G
      USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for ARM V2M motherboard.
      USB: assign instead of equal in usbtmc.c
      USB: xhci: fix OS want to own HC

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The future - Its going to be a wild ride.
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By Steven Haigh 1 min read

For a long time now, I’ve been seeing the effect of technology on everyday life. This is a great video on how technology is causing a very disruptive shift in how we view the world, what it means, and how the next generation will live.

To me, this is one of the best reasons on earth that we should be building the NBN in Australia. The future of having fibre to everywhere will give us a mass of opportunity to live in the new economy in 20-30 years time.

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Kernel-xen & xen updates
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By Steven Haigh 1 min read

Just posted an update to both kernel-xen and the xen packages.

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* Sun Aug 14 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young> - 4.1.1-3
- untrusted guest controlling PCI[E] device can lock up host CPU [CVE-2011-3131]

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* Fri Aug 19 2011 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
! Note: USB-DVB still seems to be broken.
- commit 'v2.6.32.45':
- Linux 2.6.32.45
- powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM
- powerpc: Fix device tree claim code
- ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Fix keymap for RigKontrol3
- ALSA: timer - Fix Oops at closing slave timer
- net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
- crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c</netwiz></blockquote>

Details on how to use these packages and set up a repository are available on the EL6 and Xen howto guide.

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Kernel-xen updates
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By Steven Haigh 1 min read

Have just finished posting a new kernel-xen to the repo.

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* Sun Aug 14 2011 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
- Disabled module creation for USB DVB tuners due to errors on compile. This
  will affect all DVB tuners using the dvb-usb module.
  I would assume most people who run this kernel won't use USB tuners on Dom0.
- Merged in 2.6.32.44
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