by Marc-Christian Petersen <mcp@linux-systeme.de>
WOLK 3.3 contains minimal bugfixes found in WOLK 3.2 reported by
users of wolk and found by myself and some new adds/updates which
can be found in the changelog.
Thanks to darix <darix@irssi.de> for the project name WOLK :-)
What is this? Why another patchset/patched kernel?
Using Linux since years, very tired of there are not really good
patchsets available. Saw FOLK Patch/Kernel which is still very very buggy.
Inspired by the jp-Patchsets from Joerg Prante <joerg@infolinux.de>.
The WOLK's are development kernels/patchsets for testing purpose only.
!! If you want to use it in production, use it at your own risk !!
Their purpose is to provide a service for developers and end-users who
can't be up to date with the latest official stable kernels/patches but
want to test many features out there linux can use. Maybe, (hopefully)
some of them will be included into the mainstream kernel 2.4 soon.
There will always be a new WOLK major release if there is a new final
kernel released. Minor releases only if someone/me found critical bugs,
or in case of some adds.
You are missing a patch? Patches will be added by request.
You think one or more of the patches are fully useless? Tell me why.
You have minor, major or heavy mega problems, let me know. I will try to fix.
You think this is great? Let me know too :-)
You've found a bug? Report it!!
You want YOUR patch to be included in WOLK? Let me know :)
Please send your merge against this release to me in that case.
You want to join this project as a developer? Let me know too!
I need help in successfully applying rmap and O(1) scheduler with all
the other patches in this set !
There is also a mailinglist available you can join at:
https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=49048
Some of the features:
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grsecurity, crypto, win4lin, xfs, kdb, jfs, kdb, preempt, freeswan(ipsec),
IPVS, i2c/lmsensors, tux, uml, ltt, compressed cache, evms, badmem, ABI,
software suspend, supermount, ACPI, ALSA ... and many more.
Overview:
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For a complete overview go to http://sf.net/projects/wolk
The full list of patches is http://prdownloads.sf.net/wolk/WOLK-OVERVIEW
The WOLK 3.3 kernel/patchset contains over 100 Patches.
Credits go to all the people who created the patches, working hard on
improving the quality.
Changes in WOLK 3.3
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o add: SBcard no-hlt
o add: Page Coloring
o add: ALSA v0.9.0beta12 with NO Kernel-Sound-Drivers-remove, so you
can choose between ALSA and Standard Kernel Sound Drivers.
(request by Kathrin Gutenberg <K.Gutenberg@noreply.org>)
o add: arch/i386/mm/init.c cleanup Patch, so its human readable and
working, if config is minimal.
(Reported/fixed by Waldemar Brotkorb <waldemar@thinknow.de>)
o add: Patch for ACPI (April 4th, 2002), cause if ACPI was not
defined kernel does not compile. Simple ifdefs does the job :)
In other words: we don't want to force the user to use ACPI :)
(Reported/fixed by Waldemar Brotkorb <waldemar@thinknow.de>)
o add: USBDNET (Ethernet over USB)
(request by Peter Andres <PAndres@t-online.de>)
o add: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
o update: CDfs v0.5c
o update: real BUG ON Patch (missed the 2nd Part in WOLK3.2)
o update: UML (UserModeLinux -14)
o update: ACPI (April 4th, 2002)
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The next major WOLK (WOLK 4) will be available some days after the 2.4.19
final kernel release.
Enjoy!
Marc-Christian Petersen <mcp@linux-systeme.de>
Unix/Linux Administrator
Essen, Germany
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