Kernel Development - 2.6.24
January 25th, 2008As per an announcement made on the Gentoo-dev mailing list[1]. The 2.6.24 kernel has been released with the gentoo-sources patched version will hopefully be hitting the tree this afternoon. The tentative plan is to have it ready for stable in about 5 weeks to hopefully be the kernel used in the 2008.0 release. Testing and bug reports have been requested by the development team.
Modules such as ipw3945, ati, nvidia that are in the tree are likely to break as with most new kernel releases. The tracking for regressions can be found as always at bugzilla. Note that this is just a tracker that will serve as a central source for other bugs that act as a blocker to the stabilization/regression bugs of items not directly in the kernel.
As always your reports will help get this stable sooner…not that people who are running it as testing will go woo hoo at that, but it’ll help business users and people such as myself running a stable tree. It also means that you played a part in the 2008 release if it is in fact the kernel used. Your reports are always appreciated.
[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_150497.xml
January 26th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Quite a few bugs have been opened about things not working with 2.6.24 - New kernel releases are typically the most disruptive changes, nvidia does seem to work fine against 2.6.24 - madwifi-ng doesn’t, unfortunately (I am aware of the issues and upstream *was* working on getting a release out, but conversation on that thread seems to have died out and I attempted to open it up again, so hopefully there will be a new madwifi-ng release out soon) Personally, I hate patching an older release when a new one is right around the corner, too bad ath5k is slotted for 2.6.25 instead of 2.6.24
January 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
@steev:
Aww, we gotta wait again for ath5k? I hate having to recompile external modules. In-kernel is so much better. Actually, I don’t mind external graphics driver modules like nVidia, but man, something in-kernel for Atheros cards would be appreciated. Everytime I want to use a LiveCD or install some distro on my laptop (w/Atheros PCMCIA card), I always have to get out my ethernet cable. And 6 feet to the router just ain’t enough.
Ah well, at least I can use .24 on my wired amd64 desktop. I’m in it for the new tickless mojo!