Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-29 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > It seems that linux-libre 6.6 will be released soon. Yes, probably within the next(?) week if I read this mail[0] on lkml right as there'll probably be a rc8. There already seem to be a 6.6 branch in the linux-libre project introducing the deblob scripts:

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-28 Thread Leo Famulari
Hello everyone, It seems that linux-libre 6.6 will be released soon. Would anyone like to try their hand at packaging it for Guix? Wilko, do you feel up to it? As I mentioned previously, this requires a bit more work than minor kernel upgrades because the kernel configs need to be updated. I'm

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-15 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > I pushed your patches as 06acda9715711c406f30b3a314387002244d8792 Thank you for this! > Overall, the fact that qa.guix.gnu.org is successfully building across > so many architectures means that we have a strong foundation for the > future of building kernel

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Luis Felipe writes: > El 9/10/23 a las 1:22, John Kehayias escribió: >> Hi Leo, >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by >>> myself. Now I want some more people to help with

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 02:15:41PM +0200, Wilko Meyer wrote: > seems to be good again at least, as in: > > - it builds locally > - QA[1] looks okayish as far as I can tell (no lint warnings, build > statuses look good on more common ISA) I agree, this already counts as "good". I pushed your

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-12 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, "Leo Famulari" writes: > On CI, at least the 6.5.6 kernel package was built: > > http://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/831643 The current iteration of updates[0] to: 4.14.327: longterm 4.19.296: longterm 5.10.198: longterm 5.15.135: longterm 5.4.258: longterm 6.1.57: longterm 6.5.7: stable

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-10 Thread wolf
On 2023-10-10 07:18:23 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 12:21, Wilko Meyer wrote: > > I've seen the recent thread on making linux-libre > > 6.5 the default kernel[0] and will have some time at hand later on > > today. I could try to prepare a patch set doing this to get more >

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 12:21, Wilko Meyer wrote: > I've seen the recent thread on making linux-libre > 6.5 the default kernel[0] and will have some time at hand later on > today. I could try to prepare a patch set doing this to get more > familiar with the process, which would then need a review.

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-09 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > Yes, the hashes of the kernel source code and linux-libre's "deblobbing" > scripts have to be updated. I have some scripts that fetch and calculate > the hashes (attached). Thanks for sharing these scripts with me, I've had a look into them to get familiar with

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-09 Thread Luis Felipe
El 9/10/23 a las 1:22, John Kehayias escribió: Hi Leo, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: Hello, For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by myself. Now I want some more people to help with this. Just wanted to say thanks for this work that

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-08 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Leo, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: > Hello, > > For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by > myself. Now I want some more people to help with this. > Just wanted to say thanks for this work that goes on mostly behind the scenes; I've

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:31:58PM +0200, Wilko Meyer wrote: > I could imagine myself helping with these tasks. Practically this means, > that, whenever a new linux-libre minor update is being released, the > versions in linux-libre-* packages in gnu/packages/linux.scm have to be > bumped/a patch

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-08 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by > myself. First of all: thanks for doing this! > The work itself is fairly mechanical and updates occur about once a > week. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare the patches and push them

Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-07 Thread Leo Famulari
Hello, For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by myself. Now I want some more people to help with this. The work itself is fairly mechanical and updates occur about once a week. It takes about 30 minutes to prepare the patches and push them to CI or send them to