On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Bächler schrieb: >> >> So this is it, 2.6.26 is going to testing. I adjusted the configuration >> according to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10512 and changed the maximum >> number of CPUs to 16. I hope I didn't miss any configuration bugs, if so, >> please tell me. Except some driver updates, there is nothing too exciting >> here. Just a few remarks: >> >> Kernel stuff: >> - uvesafb needs the new v86d from testing now (old one segfaults) >> - bcm43xx has been removed, all users must switch to b43 or b43legacy and >> use b43-fwcutter for firmware extraction. I am removing bcm43xx-fwcutter >> from core, as it is obsolete. >> - Someone should test squashfs, unionfs and aufs and report if they work >> (Simo?) >> >> If there is more, please tell me :) >> >> Module packages: >> - I patched catalyst with a weird patch to make it work, please anyone >> test and report! >> - intel-536ep and intel-537 don't compile. I didn't look closely yet, and >> frankly, I doubt they have much users. Do we really want to maintain them? >> - lirc is broken, maybe an update to 0.8.3 will fix it. Can the maintainer >> take care of this? I don't know when I'll get to it. >> - madwifi is broken. Do we still need it? AFAIK, all chipsets should now >> be supported by ath5k by now. Can a madwifi user please look at this (Aaron, >> Dan?) >> - martian is broken again. A user sent me patches last time, I have to >> look for his email address, maybe he fixes it again (user whose name I >> forgot, if you are reading this, please contact me). >> - I didn't try openswan-klips, any updates here? (tomk?) >> - wlan-ng26 is broken and I'd like to drop it, as I doubt anybody uses it. >> - I updated nvidia-71xx and nvidia-96xx to new upstream release for 2.6.26 >> compatibility. >> >> i686 is untested, so I need at least two signoffs. x86_64 works fine. >> > > I'm building 2.6.26-2 now. Only change is that I am adding uvcvideo and some > DVB driver (hope there wasn't something else). As I will be gone tomorrow, > here is what needs to be done before this is moved to core: > > - Build madwifi. Gerhard Brauer sent me a fixed PKGBUILD, I attached it to > this mail. > - Andy said there is a new version for catalyst, which should hopefully fix > the problem he reported. Maybe we need to reapply > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=linux-2.6-ARCH.git;a=blob;f=patches/ati-catalyst-2.6.25.patch;h=f90d8b40a7f1c8a0ea9a3ec4229322d4df98e7ab;hb=daaa7a2c43699c3b2acffaef1a4fed863194d29f
Sorry for poking my head in here - from what I understand, Catalyst 8.7 does not have 2.6.26 support. Catalyst 8.8 might.
