Slackware 14.2slackware-14.2

Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016
Slackware 14.2 x86_64 stable is released!

The long development cycle (the Linux community has lately been living in
"interesting times", as they say) is finally behind us, and we're proud to
announce the release of Slackware 14.2.  The new release brings many updates
and modern tools, has switched from udev to eudev (no systemd), and adds
well over a hundred new packages to the system.  Thanks to the team, the
upstream developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else
who pitched in to help make this release a reality.

The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.  Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com.  We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.

Have fun!  :-)

3 files changed, 49 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/source/a/lilo/lilo.SlackBuild b/source/a/lilo/lilo.SlackBuild
index c481b015..ec4a3ba8 100755
--- a/source/a/lilo/lilo.SlackBuild
+++ b/source/a/lilo/lilo.SlackBuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-# Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013  Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, MN, USA
+# Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016  Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, MN, USA
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 
-VERSION=${VERSION:-24.0}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-24.2}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 
 # Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
-    i?86) export ARCH=i486 ;;
+    i?86) export ARCH=i586 ;;
     arm*) export ARCH=arm ;;
     # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
        *) export ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ tar xvf $CWD/lilo-$VERSION.tar.gz || exit 1
 cd lilo-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 
+zcat $CWD/lilo.ignore.usable.memory.above.4G.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1
+
 make || exit 1
 make -i install DESTDIR=$PKG || exit 1
 
diff --git a/source/a/lilo/lilo.ignore.usable.memory.above.4G.diff b/source/a/lilo/lilo.ignore.usable.memory.above.4G.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee5ad8bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/a/lilo/lilo.ignore.usable.memory.above.4G.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From Sl4ck3ver on LQ:
+http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/[patch]-found-a-nasty-lilo-bug-with-a-2-line-fix-for-14-2-a-4175577969/
+
+Every BIOS-e820 entry contains start and size of the area as 64-bit value
+and is shifted right 10 bits (1024) with "shrd" while searching for the
+largest "usable" memory range entry.
+
+
+Finally the found values are converted back into real addresses by shifting
+left 10 bits...
+
+BUT this is done the wrong only using a 32-bit register so the high dword is lost!!!
+
+0x000000027fffffff gets 0x000000007fffffff :-(
+
+Every EXISTING system which happens to work fine just happens to
+have an entry which just contains "usable" memory at that address.
+Often in the form of an entry like:
+
+BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000fxxxxxxx] usable
+
+Virtually all systems have "usable" memory at that position, so until
+now this bug was not noticed!
+
+
+HERE IS THE FIX, A 2-LINER:
+===========================
+
+Ignore any usable memory range not starting below 4GB and
+so avoid the truncation, really just a work around :-)
+
+--- ./src/second.S.orig	2016-04-21 15:12:57.155456806 -0500
++++ ./src/second.S	2016-04-21 15:15:08.918466313 -0500
+@@ -2975,6 +2975,8 @@
+ 	shrd	memmap+8,eax,#10 ; convert to 1k
+ 	cmp	dword memmap,#1024	; below 1M
+ 	jb	e8go2		; below 1M, no interest
++	cmp	dword memmap,#4*1024*1024	; above 4G
++	jae	e8go2		; above 4G, no interest
+ 	cmp	esi,memmap+8	; check size
+ 	ja	e8go2		; want largest
+ 	mov	edx,memmap	; start (in 1k)
diff --git a/source/a/lilo/liloconfig b/source/a/lilo/liloconfig
index 75e3b0eb..f498da72 100644
--- a/source/a/lilo/liloconfig
+++ b/source/a/lilo/liloconfig
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ PROBE() {
       fdisk -l $devs 2> /dev/null
     done
   else # We got output without /dev/ide or /dev/scsi, so it can probably be trusted:
-    fdisk -l 2> /dev/null
+    fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | sed -e "s/Linux filesystem/Linux/g"
   fi
 }