News: 0000832304

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Six stable kernels

([Kernel] Sep 23, 2020 19:24 UTC (Wed) (ris))


Stable kernels [1]5.8.11 , [2]5.4.67 , [3]4.19.147 , [4]4.14.199 , [5]4.9.237 , and [6]4.4.237 have been released with important fixes. Users should upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/832305/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/832306/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/832307/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/832308/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/832309/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/832310/

> valerie kernel: mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
> valerie kernel: mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs

It indicates your bios authors can't read standards. Thats a quite normal
state of affairs, so common that the kernel cleans up after them

- Alan Cox on linux-kernel