Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code are getting betterm but for some laptops this is needed, any chance this could be included into the Fedora kernel? Also any

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ # unpack sparse. if [ !

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning: %define allowup 1 %define allowsmp 1 %define allowpae 1 %define allowxen 1 %define allowdoc 1 %define allowdump 1 %define

Re: Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Eric Paris wrote: Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially concerning secid reconciliation between that and secmark. The reconciliation work was killed upstream and XFRM

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning: %define allowup 1 %define allowsmp 1

Re: Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Dave Jones schrieb: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi all, AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code are getting betterm but for some

Re: Longing for git-bisect

2007-03-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:52:02 -0400, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaitcev had something that tracked the Fedora tree, but I never found time to look at what he did. You mean this? http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=kernel/zaitcev/linux-2.6-volk.git;a=summary I still have it, but the

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning: %define allowup 1

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning:

Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the firmware goes in the kernel package? Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to

Re: rpms for vanilla kernel builds ...

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Clinton Lee Taylor wrote: Greetings ... I for one would like to vote for rpms of vanilla kernel build! I have an Adaptec ASR-3410S, which is an i2o device, but since 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, I can't use it and the i2o maintaner suggests I try a vanilla kernel build to see if it's an FC kernel

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:24:44PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: I'd love to have a tool which would slurp bugdata out of our bz and allow me to edit it if necessary, and then push a submit upstream button. dkl is long on notice of how snazzy this would be, for sourceware bugzilla,

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: The minimalist approach that comes to mind is to make all the %define build* bits all set to 1/enabled by default, and only flip them to disabled where appropriate, so they'd be equivalent to your allow* idea, in that if you disable them at the top of