Re: [uClinux-dev] uClinux 2.4.0.0pre0 released.

From: David McCullough (davidm@lineo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 09:18:23 EST


Jivin D. Jeff Dionne lays it down ...
>         This is the release announcement for uClinux-2.4.0.0pre0
> 
> uClinux 2.4.0.0pre0 is out.  It is on www.uclinux.org and cvs.uclinux.org
> 
> This relase includes support for Motorola ColdFire MCF5307 and MC68328.
> The MCF5307 support targets Lineo NetTEL and the 68328 support targets
> XCoPilot.
> 
> Status:
>   MCF5307 support is the most complete.  It includes networking and drivers
>   for the NetTEL.  There are a few memory leaks and there is a bug in
>   wait4().

Some good news on the bugs above.

The memory leaks appear to have gone away with the cleanup I did from
test11 to 2.4.0.  This fixed up all the paging daemons whose job is to
free up buffers and the like in the background.

The wait4 problem was actually a bug in the user mode "init" process not
dealing with wait/SIGCHLD in the appropriate way.  This caused an infinite
loop in the "rc" file processing preventing it from getting to the shell
prompt.

Just to wet everyones appetite,  I have attached the bootlog for a
NETtel/SecureEdge Router that is running on the 2.4.0.0pre0 release from
cvs.uclinux.org,  enjoy :-)

Cheers,
Davidm

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