News: 0000832723

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A small set of stable kernels

([Kernel] Sep 27, 2020 20:37 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


The [1]5.8.12 , [2]5.4.68 , and [3]4.19.148 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/832724/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/832725/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/832726/

> 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