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Warning: this is an old version of RHEL5 kernel. For the latest version, see Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab057.2.

Changes

• Major x8664 security fix (CVE-2007-4573)
• Other security fixes
• Rebase to RHEL5 8.1.14 kernel
• areca and DRBD driver updates
• Fixes for NFS client in VE, CPT, UBC, VZDQ, IPv6, fairsched, 4GB split.

Config changes

Added:

• +CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
• +CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
• +CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
• +CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
• +CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
• +CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
• +CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
• +CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
• +CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
• +CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y

Removed:

• -CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE
• -CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM

[ See full changelog here… ]

RPMS

You need only one kernel RPM so please choose the appropriate one depending on your hardware:

• If your x86 (i686, IA32) machine has more than 4 GB of RAM, choose ovzkernel-PAE RPM.
• Otherwise, use the plain kernel RPM (i.e. ovzkernel).

For more info, see Kernel flavors.

x86 (i686, IA32)

IA64 (Itanium)

ppc64 (Power)

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

Source RPM

Kernel patch

This patch is applicable to vanilla Linux 2.6.18 kernel (not to 2.6.18.y), available from kernel.org.

Configs

Official configs of this OpenVZ kernel used to build binary RPMS.

Archives

For other rhel5 kernel releases, see download/kernel/rhel5/Archives.

For other kernel branches, see download/kernel.