Re: Current stable tag slip status 24-Mar-2005

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I have a SMP box sitting around in the corner with df current, I 
would be glad to do some testing for you or to give full access to 
anyone wishing to try to reproduce the IPV4 problem on a non-production 
machine.

The machine is ready for you to trash ;)

regards

Raphael

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Ok, the tag wasn't slipped yesterday and it isn't going to be slipped
>     today either... it can ALMOST be slipped, but some backwards
>     compatibility issues for binaries came up related to the TLS code
>     which absolutely must be fixed before the stable tag can be slipped.
>
>     The IPV4 issue is still gnawing at me but I haven't decided whether it
>     is serious enough to wait for it or not, yet.
>
>     So, the tag might possibly be slipped tomorrow sometime.  We are very 
>     close.
>
>     This is the current status for slipping the stable tag:
>
>     make seg-fault              - fixed
>     Opera/Firefox stalls        - fixed  
>     TCP 'sent too much' panic   - fixed
>     Installer update            - done
>     ppbus init panic            - fixed (gcc-3.4 bug)
>         (reported by Joroen Ruigrok/asmodai)
>     IPV4 connection problems    - still diagnosing (probably SMP related)
>         (reported by Peter Avalos)
>     TCP Flooding issue          - still diagnosing
>         (reported by Atte Peltomaki)
>     NFS TCP connection failure  - fixed
>     TLS CODE ISSUES		- in-progress.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>