On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry I didn't think about it earlier, but it was time for the kernel to > be moved, so I did it. So this is (perhaps a little late), a draft for the > announcement:
This all looks good to me. / > Linux 2.6.25 moves to core > > It took much longer than usual, I'm sorry for that, but kernel26 can now be > moved to core. Here are the changes: > > - Configuration has been reviewed completely, some more drivers have been > enabled, configurations for both architectures are now in sync > - IO accounting has been enabled, this makes it possible to use iotop > - Cleaned up the kernel patches, everything is now in one big -ARCH patch, > for details look at > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=linux-2.6-ARCH.git;a=summary > > Problems: > > - The USB subsystem can now only be accessed by GPL kernel modules. > Therefore, the slmodem USB module does no longer work. I compiled the > slmodem package without the slusb.ko module, I have no idea if this is still > useful. > - martian no longer compiles, I have no idea why and didn't find a fix for > it. > - Some users report that their iwl4965 is broken in 2.6.25, while others say > it works fine. See these two bug reports: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10389, http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10442 > > I advise all affected users to keep a copy of the old kernel26 and module > packages or not to update at all. > >
