kernel 2.6.18 beyond?

Simastrick · 2006-10-09 10:57:01

I'm using the beyond 2.6.17 kernel. Is there gonna be a 2.6.18 beyond kernel, or are the improvements in beyond already in 2.6.18 vanilla?

Should I just switch to vanilla?

Sigi · 2006-10-09 11:12:14

James (iphitus) is a little busy these days - he has some exams, IIRC. Don't expect an update in the next few days. Do you need a specific feature of 2.6.18 or beyond?

Simastrick · 2006-10-09 11:56:12

ok i was just thinking maybe the beyond kernel was no more.

iphitus · 2006-10-09 13:54:02

read readme first:
http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.18 … re1/README
http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.18 … yond1pre1/

There's an arch package there, although note that you will have to manually rebuild via abs any extra modules you require.

Rumours of beyond's death are exxagerated -- beyond is not dead. Just sleeping.

Development should *appear* to be normal pace once I get 2.6.18 out, and it'll return to full swing come November 15 (just over one month away)

James

aquila_deus · 2006-10-09 20:10:44

iphitus wrote:

read readme first:
http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.18 … re1/README
http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.18 … yond1pre1/

Just upgraded, thx

yankees26 · 2006-10-09 20:17:11

When I am not "doing" homework, I'll update and rebuild nvidia-beta drivers (if I am feeling good, I'll post a package ).
And thanks iphitus.

EDIT: Obviously, I am not really putting a lot of focus into my homework. I installed it and it works (aside from that 2.6.18 problem with ata1 port responding, but I can fix that). download.nvidia is being nubishly (made-up words for the win! ) slow, I'm about 14% done with the download during the makepkg and I still have an ETA of about 45 minutes :evil: )

yankees26 · 2006-10-09 21:45:42

Ah, my first contribution to Arch: http://fhatsoft.googlepages.com/nvidia- … pkg.tar.gz

The PKGBUILD is just tpowa's PKGBUILD for the beyond driver for 2.6.17. The only change needed is changing: _kernver='2.6.17-beyond' to _kernver='2.6.18-beyond'.

EDIT

Hehe, proof of iphitus' location:

[james@arch ~]$ uname -a
Linux arch 2.6.18-beyond #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 10 14:04:28 EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

It is still monday for me . Ah the amusements of time zones.

iphitus, I suggest possibly including this patch, which I found on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that is supposed to fix the whole ata port too slow to respond, until it gets into the kernel, which might not be till 2.6.19 (because isn't the "two week window" closed for 2.6.18?). Plus, I run into this problem that the patch is supposed to fix .

aquila_deus · 2006-10-10 05:23:43

The new kernel makes xfce compositor much slower when it moves a window. I can't figure out why..

EDIT: it works fine with official 2.6.18 and beyond 2.6.17, same xorg configuration

yankees26 · 2006-10-10 10:48:06

That might explain the problems I had when I was trying out the new packages in Shadowhand's repo.

yankees26 · 2006-10-10 23:44:25

Well, I tried that above patch I mentioned against a vanilla 2.6.18 and the it didn't fix the problem. And because it got annoying (it being the problem, and even the fix still annoyed me because it would be really slow when loading udev events on boot) I downgraded to 2.6.17-beyond. But that nvidia-beyond package is still on my site.

matersci · 2006-11-19 20:03:05

any news about kernel 2.6.18 beyond?

dtw · 2006-11-19 21:59:33

My news is I just stopped using reiser4 so that I can use kernel26ck instead

lucke · 2006-11-20 08:33:22

Here's the pre version. I think everything works okay except for reiser4 and ibm_acpi. iphitus promises a new version when .19 comes out - which isn't far off, apparently.

swiergot · 2006-11-20 14:37:47

lucke wrote:

I think everything works okay except for reiser4 and ibm_acpi.

Do you use LUKS?

lucke · 2006-11-20 15:18:46

swiergot wrote:

lucke wrote:
I think everything works okay except for reiser4 and ibm_acpi.
Do you use LUKS?

I don't. Those words regarding reiser4 and ibm_acpi were of iphitus himself, I don't use them either. Everything that I do use works okay ;-)

swiergot · 2006-11-20 20:32:38

I took the risk and so far data on my encrypted partitions haven't vaporized

hacosta · 2006-11-23 07:21:42

is it going to include fs-fcache ?

con kolivas removed it from its tree

superstoned · 2006-11-26 16:05:29

any new news, iphitus? still busy i guess? i hope you didn't forget ;-)
2.6.19 won't be long

superstoned · 2006-11-30 00:42:59

superstoned wrote:

any new news, iphitus? still busy i guess? i hope you didn't forget ;-)
2.6.19 won't be long

aaand.... behold! 2.6.19 is upon us!

iphitus · 2006-11-30 01:56:07

After my break, i'm working on 2.6.19 beyond. Right now

I'll have a pre release up by the end of the day, I'll give that some testing, and it should be in the repos soon enough.

James

superstoned · 2006-11-30 12:17:15

iphitus wrote:

After my break, i'm working on 2.6.19 beyond. Right now
I'll have a pre release up by the end of the day, I'll give that some testing, and it should be in the repos soon enough.
James

Great!
found this yet?
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-ck1/

iphitus · 2006-11-30 12:55:13

superstoned wrote:

iphitus wrote:
After my break, i'm working on 2.6.19 beyond. Right now
I'll have a pre release up by the end of the day, I'll give that some testing, and it should be in the repos soon enough.
James
Great!
found this yet?
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-ck1/

found this yet? http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.19 … yond1pre1/

or even better, this?
http://iphitus.loudas.com//entries/14.html
http://archlinux.org/~james/kernel26bey … pkg.tar.gz

2.6.19-beyond1pre1, is just a short release, so I can get some testing done while I wait for a few more patches, and so I can do some thorough testing of my own.

2.6.19-beyond1 will be out shortly, and will go to the repos.

James

superstoned · 2006-11-30 13:17:03

i'm downloading and installing the kernel right now. you'll hear from me when it works ;-)

lessthanjake · 2006-11-30 13:58:07

Tried out the new version. I fails on boot, compalyning about it's not able to determin root file system. Exactly the same menu.lst is working with beyond v2.17.

title           Arch Linux, Beyond Kernel
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/hda1
initrd          /boot/kernel26beyond.img

Snarkout · 2006-11-30 14:08:31

Did you try a fallback image?

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