Linux 2.6.0-test5, How To Incrementally Upgrade 40
An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently announced the 2.6.0-test5 Linux kernel, bringing the release of a stable 2.6 one step closer. KernelTrap quickly followed by posting a guide that walks bleeding-edge Linux fans through the process of upgrading from 2.6.0-test4 to 2.6.0-test5, using a tiny 706 KB patch."
Someone tell me what's new in this procedure? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Someone tell me what's new in this procedure? (Score:4, Insightful)
That said - posting documents like this help bring in new talent (ie. people who are too scared to start off on their own) which is a key component of keeping Linux viable into 2020 (one of these days Linus will want to retire - we need to have kernel hackers that start in 2005 who are ready to replace him). I remember my first "from source" kernel upgrade from the 2.2 series. I had always just grabbed the latest distro and installed. Imagine my surpirse when I could just get the source myself, build it, install it correctly and the system just ran. It is very powerful, and helping people achieve this power is key for Linux
Obsolete make steps (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obsolete make steps (Score:1)
Does make you wonder why they mentioned the individual steps, though.
obligatory 640 KB reference (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently, 640 KB is not enough for everybody.
Though, I would have never expected that it was Linux for which it would not be enough.
jesus (Score:2)
It's just like all other patches.. the way the article sounds, it's like some sensational new upgrade path, that must be done.. like someone made a major sysctl interface change or something, and it requires a whole new set of modutil, binutil, et al..
sensationalism sucks.
Laptop Mouse Pad Still now working (Score:1)
The 2.5.69 kernel had the mouse, sound working but since then neither sound nor mouse pad work on the HP pavilion ze5385us model
Any ideas on how to get the mouse pad to work? or te sound using the 2.6 test kernels?
Thanks all
I'd be running (Score:1)
Re:I'd be running (Score:2)
There are patches that you can apply to VMware to get it to work properly with 2.6.
Gentoo handles this automatically if it detects that you're running a 2.6 kernel.
I found out how to do it manually here [thomer.com]. Hope that helps.
Re:I'd be running (Score:1)
Not very interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
However the console framebuffer isn't going above 800x600. Ah well
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
Interesting. I think I've tried test4-mm4. Maybe it's an issue only for certain chipsets (VIA in my case). Are you using a USB keyboard? No matter what, I have no problem booting when I use a USB-PS/2 adapter for my mouse. I believe it's a known problem, since I found out how to solve the problem via the mighty Google. Unfortunately, I'm too shy to submit bug reports.
Re:Not very interesting (Score:2)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
They did however break ALSA for VIA82XX chipsets, or so it seems. *Sigh*.
I still think 2.6.0-test2 was the better of the kernels when it came to stability and audio.
Works here (Score:1)
I was using the stock 2.6.0-test5 yesterday, and i have 2.6.0-test5-love1 installed, and its also working fine.
Maybe a bug with your USB chipset? Works fine on Intel ones here and the nf2 at home.
Re:Works here (Score:1)
It's about ACPI, try pci=noacpi or leave ACPI out (Score:1)
Re:It's about ACPI, try pci=noacpi or leave ACPI o (Score:2)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
Re:Not very interesting (Score:1)
Damn (Score:2)
Ksymoops... (Score:1)
Is there an official site/email address
where I can submit any kernel oopses I get?
Also, in case this helps anyone else...
If you're running debian woody, and you're
trying to upgrade to one of these kernels,
you're probably going to be hunting around
for a copy of module-init-tools that plays
nicely with woody, instead of sid's copy.
While these are probably bleeding edge
and all, here's two packages I found which
seems to do the trick for woody w/o breaking
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Re:Ksymoops... (Score:1)
Re:Ksymoops... (Score:1)
That's what I get for magically getting Submit and Preview mixed up.
avoid xfs on md (Score:1)
xfs on a raid0 partition will corrupt its logs every time yeilding some spew about "bad clientid"
Been this way since test2 evidently as its been reported to the xfs list already, I just ran into it with test4 and test5.
make mrproper? (Score:1)
One quick point about the article: I don't think commands such as make clean or even make mrproper (as the article states) are actually required any more for a proper kernel build of 2.6. In the best case, they'll have no effect, because everything will be rebuilt after patching anyway. In the worst case, they'll even remove some files that wouldn't be rebuilt because they and their dependencies haven't been modified by the patch.
Just my 0,02 euros.