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diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b1758088527..227bec88021 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ Perl You will need perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, File::Basename, and File::Find to build the kernel. +BC +-- + +You will need bc to build kernels 3.10 and higher + System utilities ================ @@ -196,13 +201,6 @@ chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this. -Powertweak ----------- - -If you are running v0.1.17 or earlier, you should upgrade to -version v0.99.0 or higher. Running old versions may cause problems -with programs using shared memory. - udev ---- udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with @@ -282,12 +280,9 @@ that is possible. mcelog ------ -In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility -as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log -machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check -events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. -All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to -process machine checks. +On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check +events when CONFIG_X86_MCE is enabled. Machine check events are errors reported +by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. Getting updated software ======================== @@ -366,10 +361,6 @@ Intel P6 microcode ------------------ o <http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/> -Powertweak ----------- -o <http://powertweak.sourceforge.net/> - udev ---- o <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html> |