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diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index 112e765..f08b313 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ o  procps                 3.2.0                   # ps --version
 o  oprofile               0.9                     # oprofiled --version
 o  udev                   081                     # udevinfo -V
 o  grub                   0.93                    # grub --version
+o  mcelog		  0.6
+o  iptables               1.4.1                   # iptables -V
+
 
 Kernel compilation
 ==================
@@ -71,6 +74,13 @@ assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for as86 to compile
 your kernel.  This change does, however, mean that you need a recent
 release of binutils.
 
+Perl
+----
+
+You will need perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std,
+File::Basename, and File::Find to build the kernel.
+
+
 System utilities
 ================
 
@@ -276,6 +286,16 @@ before running exportfs or mountd.  It is recommended that all NFS
 services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where
 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.
+
 Getting updated software
 ========================
 
@@ -365,6 +385,10 @@ FUSE
 ----
 o <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse>
 
+mcelog
+------
+o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog/>
+
 Networking
 **********