Tue Nov 21 21:15:30 UTC 202320231121211530

We have fresh 6.6 kernels in /testing! You may notice that on the 32-bit side
we have done away with the -smp labeled kernel packages, but it's actually the
other kernels that were retired -- the non-SMP, non-PAE ones. If you were
previously using kernel-generic-smp or kernel-huge-smp, you'll need to make
some adjustments to your bootloader setup to load kernel-generic or kernel-huge
instead. About the only non-obsolete CPUs that may have an issue with this are
the first generation Pentium M chips, which supported PAE but unfortunately did
not advertise this in the CPU flags. But these will support PAE if the kernel
option "forcepae" is appended at boot time. Enjoy! :-)
a/gettext-0.22.4-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kbd-2.6.3-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Installed extra console fonts.
a/kernel-firmware-20231120_9552083-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.63-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.63-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.63-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-34.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Fix tests for including jfs/xfs repair tools. Thanks to regdub.
a/pkgtools-15.1-noarch-8.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Make vim the default vi choice.
ap/vim-9.0.2116-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/gettext-tools-0.22.4-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/git-2.43.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.63-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/mercurial-6.6-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/meson-1.3.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/scons-4.6.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.63-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/readline-8.2.007-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/c-ares-1.22.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/nfs-utils-2.6.4-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
x/libdrm-2.4.118-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-firefox-115.5.0esr-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update contains security fixes and improvements.
  Thanks to zuriel for the taskbar icon fix on Wayland. :-)
  For more information, see:
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.5.0/releasenotes/
    https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2023-50/
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6204
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6205
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6206
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6207
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6208
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6209
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6212
  (* Security fix *)
xap/vim-gvim-9.0.2116-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/xsnow-3.7.6-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
kernels/*:  Upgraded.
testing/packages/kernel-generic-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Added.
testing/packages/kernel-headers-6.6.2-x86-1.txz:  Added.
testing/packages/kernel-huge-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Added.
testing/packages/kernel-modules-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Added.
testing/packages/kernel-source-6.6.2-noarch-1.txz:  Added.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd
index cd6714c66..f869fc413 100644
--- a/README.initrd
+++ b/README.initrd
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 Slackware initrd mini HOWTO
 by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com
-Wed Nov  8 21:27:51 UTC 2023
+Mon Nov 20 21:34:50 UTC 2023
 
 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be 
 required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd".
@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it.
 
 The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included 
 in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of 
-upgrading to the generic 6.1.62 Linux kernel using the packages
+upgrading to the generic 6.1.63 Linux kernel using the packages
 found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory.
 
 First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are 
 installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so 
 this is just an example):
 
-  installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz
-  installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz
-  installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-33.txz
+  installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.63-x86_64-1.txz
+  installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.63-x86_64-1.txz
+  installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-34.txz
 
 Change into the /boot directory:
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem,
 and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module
 will be the only one I need to load:
 
-  mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.62 -m ext4
+  mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.63 -m ext4
 
 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory
 /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and
 then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's
 optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that.
 
-Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.62
+Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.63
 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3:
 
-  mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.62 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
+  mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.63 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
 
 
 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it?