Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Tobias Klausmann 
Hi! 

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Daniel Drake wrote:
 2.6.28 is out, happy holidays..

I'd be happier if well, see below.

 The usual things:

 1. Bugs in non-kernel packages in the stable tree that appear due to this 
 upgrade are tracked at bug #252467

 2. Tentative stable date is January 15th, will be held back if we have bad 
 kernel regressions etc, but jan 15th is the aim. If your package breaks due 
 to this upgrade, it's your responsibility to fix this in the stable tree 
 before this date. You can ask me for help. As long as it's gone jan 15th, 
 your broken packages will not hold back the kernel from going stable...

All .28 series kernels (all rc kernels and the final one, too) do
not compile on Alpha at all. We reported this when rc1 came out
and the culprit and a possible solution were discussed[0], but
nothing materialized. I re-triggered this on bugzilla today[1],
hoping it will be fixed soon. Until then, vanilla .28 is unusable
on alpha.

 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :)

I'll be trying that as soon as I find the time (read: somewhere
around summer 2015 if nothing gets added to my work-pile :))

Regards  Happy End-of-year stuff,
Tobias

[0] http://www.nabble.com/-ALPHA--2.6.28-rc-fails-to-compile-td20223847.html
[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12289
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panic(CPU too expensive - making holiday in the ANDES!);
linux-2.2.16/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Friedrich Oslage 
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Tobias Klausmann schrieb:
 All .28 series kernels (all rc kernels and the final one, too) do
 not compile on Alpha at all. We reported this when rc1 came out
 and the culprit and a possible solution were discussed[0], but
 nothing materialized. I re-triggered this on bugzilla today[1],
 hoping it will be fixed soon. Until then, vanilla .28 is unusable
 on alpha.

Sounds like .28 was released overhasty. For sparc(probably mips and sh
too) there's also one open regression [0], but it only affects the
headers(- compiling c library), the kernel itself is fine...so not as
bad as alpha I guess :D

Tobias, I saw you marked vanilla-sources -alpha but gentoo-sources not,
did you miss that?

Regards,
Friedrich

[0] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/16/60
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Andreas Proschofsky 

 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :)

I've been using ext4 on my / (and /home) for more than a month now, no
problems at all, but a quite  nice - subjective - performance boost,
especially in regards to filesystem checks. Also helped with the ongoing
fsync problems with the Awesomebar of Firefox 3.

bye
Andreas 
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Gentoo Developer / OpenOffice.org


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Victor Ashirov 
Hi!

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Drake d...@gentoo.org wrote:
 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :)

Already did. Works fine for me.

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Victor Ashirov

Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Daniel Drake 

Tobias Klausmann wrote:

All .28 series kernels (all rc kernels and the final one, too) do
not compile on Alpha at all. 


Please file this at the Gentoo bugzilla as well, so that we can keep 
track. We can possibly even help fix it.


cheers,
Daniel