Hello, On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 14:17 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 4/3/20 2:01 PM, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 12:43 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > On 4/3/20 12:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > On 4/3/20 11:47 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 10:18 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs- > > > > > dev > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On 4/3/20 9:35 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > According to me, kernel 5.6 is now "mainline" and stable. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there something wrong with 5.6 such LFS SVN-20200401 > > > > > > > is not including the 5.6 family?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My own point of interest with 5.6 is the time_namespace > > > > > > > (for containers). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is 5.6.2 too new to be considered for the (B)LFS project? > > > > > > > > > > > > > With early 5.6 versions, 5.6/5.6.1, the Intel Wireless > > > > > > driver > > > > > > (IWLWIFI) > > > > > > was broken. I think we're holding to see if any other > > > > > > regressions > > > > > > show > > > > > > up under this release > > > > > > > > > > Hmm I think from the thread on lfs-dev, that the kernel > > > > > version > > > > > will be > > > > > updated when other packages need to be updated in lfs. It > > > > > does > > > > > not > > > > > prevent users to update to recent kernels, of course... Maybe > > > > > we > > > > > could > > > > > amend the note on the "All packages" page by telling to > > > > > update to > > > > > the > > > > > most recent mainline version instead of the most recent 5.5.x > > > > > version. > > > > > > > > I'll go ahead and make that change. > > > > > > But I made that the latest stable version, not mainline. > > > > > > -- Bruce > > > > > My understanding of /www.kernel.org > > mainline is 5.6 > > stable is 5.6.2 > > (5.5.15 is flagged stable too). > > May be LFS could "jump" to 5.6.X > > I don't plan on doing an update until April 15 or so. I'll update > to > 5.6.X then. In the meantime, the note in Chapter 3 should be > sufficient. > > -- Bruce > > > I was successfull to compile allmost everything (blfs) with kernel 5.6.2, no real problem, looking good at first, but.... ZFS (0.8.3 and not part of the official BLFS) is not compiling seems kernel 5.6 is addressing the "Year 2038 problem" plus doing 'convert everything to "struct proc_ops"'.
This mean big impact on applications/utilities in direct interface with kernel layers... So, sadly, I will step back to kernel 5.5, giving time to upstream components to be adjusted to kernel 5.6 new definitions. sharing experiences.... -- You have seen "Linux from scratch" and looking for ISO files www.osukiss.org -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
