From fe7ee9b85879db100f5c9b5ae56e61025df2c244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 23:28:22 +0200 Subject: contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next: Split hardware compatibility topics. --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index 4bf73b6b..2d48f4a5 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -63,13 +63,15 @@ ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk, as well as support in [[hurd/translator/procfs]] for [statfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00005.html). -Thomas Schwinge and Samuel Thibault improved the hardware compatibility of the -Hurd by fixing [some -errors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) which -caused a miscalculation of the size of medium sized disks reporting 15 heads -instead of 16 and adding [network-card +Thomas Schwinge improved the hardware compatibility of the Hurd by [identifying +and +backporting]](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) +some changes contained in Linux 2.0.40, which prevents data corruption due to a +miscalculation of the size of medium-sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of +16. +Samuel Thibault improved [network card detection](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html) -network-card detection on busses other than 0 and 2. +on busses other than 0 and 2. And several people ported and fixed packages, further increasing the number of debian packages which work on the Hurd: *Svante Signell* ported -- cgit v1.2.3