2.6.28-4 Kernel?

dr/owned · 2009-01-10 07:55:17

I've tried googling to see if there's already a topic for this, but when're we going to see this kernel in the [testing] repo? The bastards in the ubuntu camp are already using it and it fixes (thanks to Linus himself) the suspend issues that have been a plague so far. Oh and it also fixes the acpi issue where AMD x64 users have to hold down a key to boot under certain circumstances.

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tomk · 2009-01-10 08:09:49

You need to familiarise yourself with the difference between upstream release numbers and distro package release numbers. Our current kernel26 package is numbered 2.6.28-3, which means it is the 3rd Arch package built from the 2.6.28 kernel source code. I don't know how Ubuntu number their packages, but it's probably something along those lines too.

If Linus himself has fixed something, that fix is available to all distros in the 2.6.28 upstream kernel release, which is the source code from which both Arch and Ubuntu build their kernel packages.

archlinuxsagi · 2009-01-10 08:17:36

Is there an official kernel of 2.6.28.4? There isn't even 2.6.28.1 and all we have currently is 2.6.28 which is in the testing repo.

Please refer to http://www.kernel.org/ for the kernel release.

dr/owned · 2009-01-10 08:50:11

Oh, sorry, didn't realize that the dash is distro-dependent...I just assumed since every distro more or less had the same -X that it was a version number from upstrem...woops

Edit: That's not good since suspend/hibernate is still partially broken for me with the testing kernel ...just filed it under the "laptops" section...

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.:B:. · 2009-01-10 09:31:00

The dot is done by upstream. The dash is often (if not exclusively) a package version.

It's a rather useless (don't mean to sound harsh but that's how it is...) question to ask 'when are we going to see X in repo Y'. It will get there, eventually, and if you are in desperate need of it, you can always grab X's PKGBUILD and spice it up .

Git is not the most friendly interface to use imho though - I'm no ace with any version control system but git seems particularly mysterious to me :-/. If you know how to work it you may be able to pull the patch you need though, and you could also have a look at the Ubuntu source package for the kernel and grab what you need from there.

dr/owned · 2009-01-10 11:23:06

Yes I was kinda sorta fishing for "you can splice in a new kernel by doing such and such". (had -4 actually existed )

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2.6.28-4 Kernel?

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