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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-06-15 10:36:54 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-06-15 10:36:54 +1000 |
| commit | 7dafd239ab522d38979ebe44d79aa68ad7b1a383 (patch) | |
| tree | 04754a0c6495e57c1fe5f417fbfc99272d353c0e /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | bc47ab0241c7c86da4f5e5f82fbca7d45387c18d (diff) | |
| parent | 45e3e1935e2857c54783291107d33323b3ef33c8 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Changes | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b95082be4d5..664392481c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version -o Gnu make 3.79.1 # make --version +o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version o binutils 2.12 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ o procps 3.2.0 # ps --version o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version o udev 081 # udevinfo -V o grub 0.93 # grub --version +o mcelog 0.6 Kernel compilation ================== @@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ computer. Make ---- -You will need Gnu make 3.79.1 or later to build the kernel. +You will need Gnu make 3.80 or later to build the kernel. Binutils -------- @@ -276,6 +277,16 @@ before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where that is possible. +mcelog +------ + +In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility +as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log +machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check +events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. +All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to +process machine checks. + Getting updated software ======================== @@ -365,6 +376,10 @@ FUSE ---- o <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse> +mcelog +------ +o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog/> + Networking ********** |