Bug#601997: [Bug 538648] Re: [Intel GM45] Irregular sync flashes on 8086:2a42 (Needs i915.powersave quirk)

2010-11-02 Thread Russel Winder
Alexis,

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 21:55 +, Alexis de Lattre wrote:
 @Russel,
 
 You will find an up-to-date summary of the situation at the very
 beginning of the bug report (your bug report ! :-), in the 3 first
 paragraphs of the bug description.

I think the problem is that when Julien looked at this bug report, it
wasn't clear which kernel version is the one that provides the fix so
that the Debian folk can investigate whether they can issue that kernel
for Squeeze.

 ** Description changed:
 
   [Status]
   Fixed in maverick
   Not fixed in lucid (bug still seen on 2010-09-22 with kernel 2.6.32-25)

Debian Squeeze is still running the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, Maverick is
running 2.6.35-22.  Does anyone know which changeset to which kernel
series actually cures the problem?  Do we even know whether this is a
2.6.32, 2.6.33, 2.6.34 or 2.6.35 issue?

   [Workaround]
   As workaround add the option i915.powersave=0 to the kernel command line in 
 the grub config (for GRUB 2: edit /etc/default/grub and add  i915.powersave=0 
 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, then run sudo update-grub; for GRUB 1: edit 
 /boot/grub/menu.lst and add i915.powersave=0 to the end of the line beginning 
 with # kopt=, then run sudo update-grub).
   
   [Alternative workaround for experts]
 - Compile your kernel with Andy Whitcroft's patch from 
 http://people.canonical.com/~apw/lp538648-lucid/ (see comment #88).
 + Compile your kernel with Andy Whitcroft's patch from 
 http://people.canonical.com/~apw/lp538648-lucid/ (see comment #92).

I am not sure this is an option for the Debian folk, they need to run a
kernel from the official series.

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Bug #602009 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-amd64: i915.powersave option 
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Re: Xen dom0 (core) merged to upstream Linux 2.6.37 and other new features

2010-11-02 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 12:26:42AM +0800, Liang Suilong wrote:
 
 NVIDIA and ATi proprietary drivers do not support xen kernel. If a trunk or
 generic kernel is built in xen pv_ops support, when users switch from normal
 mode to booting xen kernel, X server will not boot. Though we know a user
 who sets up a xen server is not a Linux newbies, the result makes user
 uncomfortable. It looks an uneasy problem.

you are on you own once you load those.
 
 Linus has released kernel-2.6.37-rc1. I read the changelog. Some Xen pvops
 patch has merged into upstream kernel. Waiting Debian to push 2.6.37-rc1 to
 experimental and test it for Xen.

experimental is currently on .36 and will stay on such until later
2.6.37-rcX (probably rc5 or such).

anyway the currently merged patches are bare dom0 support without any
backend, see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps 

P.S. please do not top post.


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Bug#481684: marked as done (Please enable CONFIG_LATENCYTOP so we can use the latencytop tool)

2010-11-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
Version: 2.6.25-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

please consider enabling CONFIG_LATENCYTOP in the kernel, as it's needed
for the 'latencytop' utility to work. latencytop itself is already in
unstable. See also http://latencytop.org/.

The current kernels have
  CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y
  # CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is not set
but both options are needed.

I must admit I do _not_ know if there are any negative effects when
enabling that setting. However, I have rebuilt my kernel
(Debian 2.6.25-3 version) with CONFIG_LATENCYTOP and it _did_ make
latencytop work fine for me.


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 performance for most users.  This has nothing to do with providing debug
 information, which is provided in separate packages and has a minimal
 effect on the kernel image packages.

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Bug#600935: marked as done ([linux-2.6] Please consider to enable CONFIG_LATENCYTOP)

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Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.36~rc5-1~experimental.1
Severity: wishlist

Hi, 

Latencytop is a excelient utility to latency problem in desktop environment, it
can only work with CONFIG_LATENCYTOP enabled kernel, so I advice to consider 
enable CONFIG_LATENCYTOP in future linux-image. 

Compired with /boot/config-2.6.36-rc6-amd64, when CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is enabled,
following options will be enabled too. 

CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

Bug 481684 was submitted to ask to enable CONFIG_LATENCY on May 18 2008, but
debian provide kernel debug now, is it the time to consider to enable 
CONFIG_LATENCYTOP ? 

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Bug#600846: The problem also exists in 2.6.32-27 version of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.

2010-11-02 Thread hu...@online.de
The problem also exists in 2.6.32-27 version of 
linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.




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Bug#600846: The problem also exists in 2.6.32-27 version of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.

2010-11-02 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:26:18PM +0100, hu...@online.de wrote:
 The problem also exists in 2.6.32-27 version of  
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.

please name the latest good 2.6.32-XX linux-image, which didn't show
the error, so that the regression can be bisected. all images should
be available on snapshot.debian.org.

thank you.



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Bug#600846: Strange background behind login window.

2010-11-02 Thread hu...@online.de

I remember another item:
At the time when the Suspend-To-RAM worked fine the login window always 
occurred in front

of an empty clean black background.
But now the background behind the login window has a strange colored 
look and seems to be
a shattered and unrecognizable picture - maybe taken from an Xserver 
screen saver or a KDE

desktop style or something like that.



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Re: item for kernel meeting -- NX emulation

2010-11-02 Thread maximilian attems
hello Kees,

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Kees Cook wrote:

 Thanks for adding this to the agenda! I've added details about both
 AppArmor and the nx-emulation bits to the wiki page. Let me know if
 you've got any questions.
 
Do you know if newly split out 32bit-mmap-exec-randomization
has a chance in going upstream or has already been submitted?


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Bug#587917: linux-image-2.6.36-rc6-amd64: GoogleEarth freezes my PC

2010-11-02 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.36~rc6-1~experimental.1
Followup-For: Bug #587917

My laptop consistently hangs when I try to run GoogleEarth 
5.1.3533.1731+0.5.4-1.
I see the splash screen and then that's all she wrote.
This only happens with the rc6 kernel - GoogleEarth runs fine in Lenny.

-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 2.6.36-rc6-amd64 (Debian 2.6.36~rc6-1~experimental.1) 
(b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.4-17) ) #1 SMP Mon Oct 4 
09:56:45 UTC 2010

** Command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.36-rc6-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/VgCompaq-debian 
resume=/dev/VgCompaq/swap ro quiet splash vga=0x317

** Not tainted

** Kernel log:
[8.706374] PM: Marking nosave pages: bf5bb000 - bf5bf000
[8.706376] PM: Basic memory bitmaps created
[8.720747] PM: Basic memory bitmaps freed
[9.775980] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
[9.790202] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[9.790225] EXT3-fs (dm-4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[   13.324159] udevd version 125 started
[   14.103548] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   14.138087] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   14.414134] i801_smbus :00:1f.3: PCI INT D - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 
19
[   14.458146] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input1
[   14.573718] input: Power Button as 
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input2
[   14.573780] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[   14.573843] input: Lid Switch as 
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input3
[   14.573920] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[   14.573981] input: Sleep Button as 
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input4
[   14.574017] ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]
[   14.574097] input: Power Button as 
/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5
[   14.574129] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[   14.622287] ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
[   14.628743] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   14.663517] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state
[   14.702725] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7041 (04f2:b057)
[   14.702770] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state
[   14.706449] input: CNF7041 as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/input/input6
[   14.706508] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   14.706510] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[   14.720025] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state
[   14.720040] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
[   14.748027] Switching to clocksource hpet
[   15.165089] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[   15.508141] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
[   15.614607] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[   15.614867] ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded
[   15.750544] ath5k :01:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16
[   15.750561] ath5k :01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   15.750648] ath5k :01:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   16.522056] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7
[   16.607520] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as 
/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
[   16.958287]   alloc irq_desc for 22 on node -1
[   16.958290]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   16.958302] HDA Intel :00:1b.0: PCI INT A - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 
22
[   16.958401]   alloc irq_desc for 41 on node -1
[   16.958403]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[   16.958417] HDA Intel :00:1b.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
[   16.958453] HDA Intel :00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   16.997162] input: HP WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input9
[   17.157439] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x67
[   17.157442] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[   17.157447] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[   17.157449] ath: Regpair used: 0x67
[   17.263307] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/input/input10
[   17.265407] input: HDA Intel Mic as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[   17.265882] input: HDA Intel Mic as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
[   17.266337] input: HDA Intel Headphone as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13
[   17.505020] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   17.505704] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[   17.505725] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[   17.505734] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[   18.742234] EXT3-fs (dm-4): using internal journal
[   19.271233] loop: module loaded
[   21.547868] fuse init (API version 7.15)
[   21.891473] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
[   21.901481] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   21.901648] EXT3-fs (sda1): using internal journal
[   21.901653] EXT3-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[   21.956752] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
[   21.973101] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   21.973380] EXT3-fs (dm-3): using internal journal
[   21.973385] 

Bug#600846: The problem also exists in 2.6.32-27 version of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 package.

2010-11-02 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:29:10PM +0100, hu...@online.de wrote:
 As far as I remember there was no good 2.6.32-XX linux-image which  
 didn't show
 the error - all of them did.
 If my memory serves me well the last good kernel that didn't show the  
 error was
 2.6.30-1 , and the error came up in 2.6.30-2 . (If you want I could test  
 this kernel version
 again on my system - just tell me how to add a valid public key so that  
 synaptic accepts
 the snapshot repository).

oh well you probably mean abi number above and not version number,
so the regression is really old and most probably either due to
switch to libata or to KMS intel drivers.

in that case it be more useful to know if newer linux-2.6 is fixed,
by any chance tried anything newer from experimental?
current 2.6.36 linux-image installs just fine in testing.

can you reproduce it there?

 The problem is that I did not make any notes about this - I didn't  
 intend to write
 a bug report at this time but expected the problem to vanish anyway with  
 the update
 next week or so (but it didn't - for a lot of weeks now).
 So I am not sure about all of this - not even if the problem is caused  
 by the kernel or by
 another component like Xserver or KDE - I must leave it to you linux  
 professionals to
 make this decision.
 The only thing I am sure about is that every second or third  
 Suspend-To-RAM hangs.

I see, thanks a lot for the quick responsiveness.

P.S.: please keep bug report on cc, to keep record of it, thanks.



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updated text

2010-11-02 Thread dann frazier
Maks  I discussed this on IRC and drafted the following text which we
believe is ready for inclusion:

 Debian 6.0 will be the final Debian release to include Linux kernel
 virtualization featuresets outside of mainline. This means that the
 OpenVZ and Linux-Vserver featuresets should be considered deprecated,
 and users should migrate to linux-2.6 upstream merged virtualization
 solutions like KVM, Linux Containers or Xen.


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Re: item for kernel meeting -- NX emulation

2010-11-02 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:04:13PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
 hello Kees,
 
 On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Kees Cook wrote:
 
  Thanks for adding this to the agenda! I've added details about both
  AppArmor and the nx-emulation bits to the wiki page. Let me know if
  you've got any questions.
  
 Do you know if newly split out 32bit-mmap-exec-randomization
 has a chance in going upstream or has already been submitted?

I would fight it going upstream as it has terrible entropy. I feel it only
has value when combined with the nx-emu patch, which would have 0 entropy
for the relocated executable regions if left as-is.

The goal discussed on the Fedora kernel list was to somehow get rewrites of
the existing upstream ASLR so that it could be used with the nx-emu patch
and then the 32bit-mmap-exec-randomization could be eliminated.

The feature 32bit-mmap-exec-randomization is trying to implement is ASCII
armor (leading 0 byte on addresses), but it's greedy-fit method creates a
nearly deterministic layout for each given ELF. So if a way to do ASCII
armor with the upstream ASLR can be created, it can be dropped.

There has been no progress on this, though.

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Bug#602009: linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-amd64: i915.powersave option is not respected in 2.6.36

2010-11-02 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello,

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com wrote:
 Thanks for your prompt response. Done, it's bug #31311:

 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31311

Chris Wilson's reply shed some light on this and I now understand
what's going on. I commented up i915.powersave=0 to test if #580601
was gone in 2.6.36, and that made into the initrd, as I found out
after examining it. Running update-initramfs -k all -u solved the
issue.

In 2.6.36, as Chris Wilson stated,
/sys/modules/i915/parameters/powersave is 0400. I'm led to believe
that at some point in initialization, after the root filesystem is
mounted, modprobe goes over /etc/modprobe.d again to reset the
options. This might be why leaving i915.powersave=0 commented out in
the initrd worked before 2.6.36. If this is the case, then it might be
nice to have the commit mentioned in the f.d.o bug report backported,
perhaps. It could also be that my other initrds simply didn't have
that option commented out.

Anyways, the issue is now solved for me:

ferna...@vostro:~$ sudo cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/powersave
0
ferna...@vostro:~$ uname -a
Linux vostro 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 27 14:28:29 UTC 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux
ferna...@vostro:~$

Please feel free to close/archive/invalidate this bug report. Sorry
for any inconvenience and thanks for your time.

Regards,



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Re: updated text

2010-11-02 Thread Mario Kleinsasser
Hello Dann,

I've got your message from the list and would like to ask you what this
mean? We are massively using OpenVZ for our containers and this is the base
of our weberver farm. The lxc Linux Containers project (
http://lxc.sourceforge.net) sounds similar as OpenVZ. Are the kernel patches
based upon the work of OpenVZ from Kir Kolyshkin? My colleague and I know
Kir Kolyshkin (OpenVZ) since some years and we are in contact from time to
time with him.

I gather that it isn't currently a problem for us because squeeze will have
an OpenVZ kernel image but its good to know whats coming next because we
then have to productive migrate a lot of instances.
Does anyone know whats the currently status of OpenVZ integration in Debian
6.0 and later is? Whats the plan or vision?

The lxc homepage and the lxc article on wiki.debian.org or are quite
straight forward. We aren't developers but we could do some testing if help
is needed.

Mario

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:43 PM, dann frazier da...@debian.org wrote:

 Maks  I discussed this on IRC and drafted the following text which we
 believe is ready for inclusion:

  Debian 6.0 will be the final Debian release to include Linux kernel
  virtualization featuresets outside of mainline. This means that the
  OpenVZ and Linux-Vserver featuresets should be considered deprecated,
  and users should migrate to linux-2.6 upstream merged virtualization
  solutions like KVM, Linux Containers or Xen.


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Bug#602254: initramfs-tools: [lib]crc32c* modules handling

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.98.5
Severity: normal


libcrc32c requires one crc32c provider (currently crc32c or
crc32c-intel) to work properly. libcrc32c does not have any hard
dependencies:

  % modinfo libcrc32c | grep depends
  depends:  

Some drivers like the bnx2x network module:

  % modinfo bnx2x | grep depends
  depends:mdio,libcrc32c

... as well as the btrfs filesystem module:

  % modinfo btrfs | grep libcrc
  depends:libcrc32c

require libcrc32c and therefore depend on a crc32c provider to work
properly on the other hand.

I've bugreports that servers using bnx2x based NICs (like HP
Proliant BL460cG6, Dell R210,...) don't work out-of-the-box because
of unresolved symbols during boot - affecting both Debian and
Ubuntu. I can't trigger this bug on a booted system with loading
btrfs - *crc32* is loaded as intended. Instead there seems to be a
race condition when multiple modprobes are asking for the same
driver (like what happens with multiple similar NICs asking for
bnx2x).

Manually adding crc32c, libcrc32c and mdio to conf/modules is known
to solve the problem. AFAICS this works because the modules in
conf/modules are loaded through load_modules() *before* relying on
automatisms which seem to fail.

I found the following discussions with upstream:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/4132
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/26/63

In linux-2.6.git I noticed commit
9bea7f23952d5948f8e5dfdff4de09bb9981fb5f - though the issue is known
to be still present with kernel 2.6.35 and current userspace from
Debian/unstable, so whether it's a bug in i-t, kernel or
module-init-tools - we should investigate on that.

This issue might qualify for a RC bug, though needs deeper
investigation. I'm currently short of time and don't have a decent
solution besides the workaround available, tough I'd like to see
this issue at least documented in Debian's BTS for now and welcome
any suggestions how we we could solve this problem.

PS: I don't own the according hardware to trigger the bug on my own,
but if we need any testing/feedback I think the bugreporters might
help us out - so please ping me then.

regards,
-mika-



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Bug#602256: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Squeeze kernel (amd64/i386) won't boot on Lenny KVM/amd64 with vcpu 1

2010-11-02 Thread Brian Conway
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.32-27
Severity: important

Aftering install via beta 1 d-i on Lenny KVM/amd64 host, neither Squeeze amd64 
or i386 will boot with vcpu more than 1.  Booting in rescue mode shows it 
hanging after initializing USB.  Both OSes boot correctly with vcpu = 1.  
Additionally, the beta 1 i386 installer will run with vcpu = 2, but the amd64 
beta 1 installer will not.

-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-27) (m...@debian.org) (gcc version 
4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 14:18:21 UTC 2010

** Command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 
root=UUID=9d0f2b04-6c07-44f4-a25b-10ccaf426bd3 ro quiet

** Not tainted

** Kernel log:
[0.323138] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[0.323277] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
[0.323560] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
[0.323649] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as 
/devices/virtual/input/input0
[0.323694] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 
1,12
[0.324331] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[0.324335] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[0.324410] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[0.324696] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as 
/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[0.324930] rtc_cmos 00:01: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[0.324999] rtc0: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram
[0.325006] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[0.325008] cpuidle: using governor menu
[0.325011] No iBFT detected.
[0.325306] TCP cubic registered
[0.325397] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[0.326068] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[0.326251] Mobile IPv6
[0.326256] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[0.326335] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[0.326340] registered taskstats version 1
[0.326588] rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to 2010-11-02 23:09:51 UTC 
(1288739391)
[0.326610] Initalizing network drop monitor service
[0.326628] Freeing unused kernel memory: 584k freed
[0.326798] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 4232k
[0.388473] udev[46]: starting version 163
[0.700181] SCSI subsystem initialized
[0.724436] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
[0.724467] virtio-pci :00:03.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKC] - GSI 11 
(level, high) - IRQ 11
[0.724993] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
[0.725010] virtio-pci :00:04.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKD] - GSI 10 
(level, high) - IRQ 10
[0.726483] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[0.726592] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[0.729847] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[0.738071] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[0.739523] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[0.739563] uhci_hcd :00:01.2: PCI INT D - Link[LNKD] - GSI 10 (level, 
high) - IRQ 10
[0.739594] uhci_hcd :00:01.2: setting latency timer to 64
[0.739606] uhci_hcd :00:01.2: UHCI Host Controller
[0.739636] uhci_hcd :00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus 
number 1
[0.739729] uhci_hcd :00:01.2: irq 10, io base 0xc020
[0.739806] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[0.739810] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=1
[0.739812] usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
[0.739813] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 uhci_hcd
[0.739814] usb usb1: SerialNumber: :00:01.2
[0.739866] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[0.739889] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[0.739896] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[0.740750]  vda:
[0.741251] FDC 0 is a S82078B
[0.743046]  vda1 vda2 vda3
[0.750192] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[0.752079] ata_piix :00:01.1: version 2.13
[0.752162] ata_piix :00:01.1: setting latency timer to 64
[0.752378] scsi0 : ata_piix
[0.754440] scsi1 : ata_piix
[0.754518] ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc000 irq 14
[0.754520] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc008 irq 15
[0.912395] ata2.00: ATAPI: QEMU DVD-ROM, 0.9.1, max UDMA/100
[0.912805] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[0.913218] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROMQEMU QEMU DVD-ROM 0.9. 
PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[0.922922] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/4x xa/form2 tray
[0.922928] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[0.923136] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[0.935845] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[1.000886] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[1.000888] PM: Resume from partition 254:2
[1.000889] PM: Checking hibernation image.
[1.000971] PM: Error -22 checking image file
[1.000972] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[1.041735] EXT4-fs (vda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[1.644699] 

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Re: updated text

2010-11-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 +0100, Mario Kleinsasser wrote:
 Hello Dann,
 
 
 I've got your message from the list and would like to ask you what
 this mean? We are massively using OpenVZ for our containers and this
 is the base of our weberver farm. The lxc Linux Containers project
 (http://lxc.sourceforge.net) sounds similar as OpenVZ. Are the kernel
 patches based upon the work of OpenVZ from Kir Kolyshkin? My colleague
 and I know Kir Kolyshkin (OpenVZ) since some years and we are in
 contact from time to time with him.

I believe that many of the OpenVZ developers have also been working on
Linux Containers.

 I gather that it isn't currently a problem for us because squeeze will
 have an OpenVZ kernel image but its good to know whats coming next
 because we then have to productive migrate a lot of instances.
 Does anyone know whats the currently status of OpenVZ integration in
 Debian 6.0 and later is? Whats the plan or vision?
[...]

It is still supported in Debian 6.0, and the OpenVZ developers are
actively maintaining a branch based on Linux 2.6.32 which we are taking
fixes from.

Ben.

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