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author Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2023-10-26 19:55:16 +0000
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2023-10-26 23:09:17 +0200
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a/kernel-firmware-20231024_4ee0175-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-6.1.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-6.1.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-6.1.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/shadow-4.14.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-6.1.60-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-6.1.60-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. Hey folks, if you've been following LQ you know I've talked before about dropping the huge kernel and moving the distribution to use only the generic kernel plus an initrd. After mulling this over for a few months, I think I was looking at the problem in the wrong way. First of all, it's clear that some Slackware users have been using the huge kernel all along, without an initrd, and are (to say the least) unhappy about the prospect of a new requirement to start using one. I've been recommending the generic kernel for some time, and a major reason is that we've been using the same set of kernel modules with two slightly different kernels. Because of this, there have always been a few (generally seldom used) kernel modules that won't load into the huge kernel. These are things that aren't built into the huge kernel, but because of a difference in some kernel module dependency, they won't load. The conclusion that I've come to here is that rather than drop the huge kernel, or slap a LOCALVERSION on it and provide a whole duplicate tree of kernel modules especially for the huge kernel, it would be better to make the generic kernel more huge, and minimize the differences between the two kernel configs. That's what I've done here. Shown below are the differences between the previous generic kernel config and the one shipping in this update. You'll notice that most of the popular filesystems are built in. At this point the main difference it that the huge kernel has a couple of dozen SCSI drivers built into it. The modules for those drivers won't load into the huge kernel, but they're fully built in so that doesn't matter. If you find any other modules that will not load into the huge kernel, please make a note about it on LQ and I'll see what can be done. So, tl;dr - what does this change mean? Unless your root device is on SCSI, if you were able to use the huge kernel without an initrd previously, you should now be able to use the generic kernel without an initrd. The kernel is a bit bigger, but we probably have enough RAM these days that it won't make a difference. Enjoy! :-) -CIFS_SMB_DIRECT n 9P_FS m -> y 9P_FSCACHE n -> y BTRFS_FS m -> y CIFS m -> y CRYPTO_CMAC m -> y CRYPTO_CRC32 m -> y CRYPTO_XXHASH m -> y CRYPTO_ZSTD m -> y EFIVAR_FS m -> y EXFAT_FS m -> y EXT2_FS m -> y EXT3_FS m -> y EXT4_FS m -> y F2FS_FS m -> y FAILOVER m -> y FAT_FS m -> y FSCACHE m -> y FS_ENCRYPTION_ALGS m -> y FS_MBCACHE m -> y HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO m -> y ISO9660_FS m -> y JBD2 m -> y JFS_FS m -> y LZ4HC_COMPRESS m -> y LZ4_COMPRESS m -> y MSDOS_FS m -> y NETFS_SUPPORT m -> y NET_9P m -> y NET_9P_FD m -> y NET_9P_VIRTIO m -> y NET_FAILOVER m -> y NFSD m -> y NLS_CODEPAGE_437 m -> y NTFS3_FS m -> y NTFS_FS m -> y PSTORE_LZ4_COMPRESS n -> m PSTORE_LZO_COMPRESS n -> m PSTORE_ZSTD_COMPRESS n -> y QFMT_V2 m -> y QUOTA_TREE m -> y REISERFS_FS m -> y RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 m -> y SMBFS m -> y SQUASHFS m -> y UDF_FS m -> y VFAT_FS m -> y VIRTIO_BALLOON m -> y VIRTIO_BLK m -> y VIRTIO_CONSOLE m -> y VIRTIO_INPUT m -> y VIRTIO_MMIO m -> y VIRTIO_NET m -> y VIRTIO_PCI m -> y VIRTIO_PCI_LIB m -> y VIRTIO_PCI_LIB_LEGACY m -> y VIRTIO_PMEM m -> y XFS_FS m -> y ZONEFS_FS n -> m ZSTD_COMPRESS m -> y +NFS_FSCACHE y +PSTORE_LZ4_COMPRESS_DEFAULT n +PSTORE_LZO_COMPRESS_DEFAULT n +PSTORE_ZSTD_COMPRESS_DEFAULT n kde/plasma-workspace-5.27.9.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/glib2-2.78.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/netpbm-11.04.03-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/newt-0.52.24-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/gpgme-1.23.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/p11-kit-0.25.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/php-8.2.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix release. For more information, see: https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.2.12 x/xorg-server-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: OOB write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty. Use-after-free bug in DestroyWindow. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5367 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5380 (* Security fix *) x/xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-xnest-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-xwayland-23.2.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: OOB write in XIChangeDeviceProperty/RRChangeOutputProperty. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5367 (* Security fix *) xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/115.4.1/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-47/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5721 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5732 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5724 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5725 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5726 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5727 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5728 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5730 (* Security fix *) xfce/thunar-4.18.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'isolinux')
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diff --git a/isolinux/message.txt b/isolinux/message.txt
index 6bbbf07bb..37d405724 100644
--- a/isolinux/message.txt
+++ b/isolinux/message.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Welcome to 09Slackware6407 version 15.1 (Linux kernel 6.1.59)!
+Welcome to 09Slackware6407 version 15.1 (Linux kernel 6.1.60)!
If you need to pass extra parameters to the kernel, enter them at the prompt
below after the name of the kernel to boot (e.g., huge.s).