Beyond dead

buddabrod · 2007-05-09 10:42:16

wolfi wrote:

Sad to hear, Thanks for your work iphitus, i liked the beyond and archck patchset.
My / is still on reiser4, i ll stick with it and try the viper patchset or some other. What about the mm kernel? "how much" unstable is it ? stable enough for everyday work ?

Not really. It has many fixes, but most stuff is unstable/experimental like reiser4 support which can easily break your fs because of some new and experimental patches.

STiAT · 2007-05-09 13:04:18

AndyRTR wrote:

No way. Just maintain it in AUR or your own binary repo.
Due to the lack of packaging manpower we will probably reduce the amount of supported binary packages for the future!

Quite a bad idea. I could switch to gentoo then again, since i'd have to get the pkgbuilds and build most things myself anyway, as long as no TU adobts the packages dropped by Developers.

I see no problem in activating community (i currently have activated community quite everywhere), letting TUs maintain the software, but dropping them down to AUR is one of the worst cases which could happen. Since it would be source install without portage and automatic updates.

If so, you will of course need more TUs, anyway, unsupported is not the way i'd like.
For myself, i didn't know that more TUs are accepted and needed. I bet a lot of people who would have the skills actually don't know this.

Also, having x86_64 and i686 maintainers sounds fine. Why not split them up, some can of course do both, a lot of won't be able to (since they don't have a 64 machine available).

@iphitus: I've been using the kernel for a very long time, and you did a great work on it. Thank you for maintaining it for this long period.

Last edited by STiAT (2007-05-09 13:07:11)

swiergot · 2007-05-09 13:13:04

I'm sure TUs won't allow any in-demand packages to be dropped to unsupported.

XazZ · 2007-05-09 16:38:21

Hi everyone...

I just wanted to say big thanks to iphitus
Your patchset was the best one... and it's still the best..
It's sad that you discontinue it... but your real life is more important than a kernel patchset...

Big thanks again... and keep up the good work...
XazZ

Sigi · 2007-05-09 18:22:52

I second that, XazZ. Not to forget the importance of the beyond patchset for larch (gradgrinds LiveCD/DVD/usb scripts). Beyond was the only kernel available that worked with squashfs and unionfs a few month ago IIRC.

Thanks for the effort you put into archck/beyond and keep up the good work!
Sigi

Romashka · 2007-05-09 21:27:22

swiergot wrote:

I'm sure TUs won't allow any in-demand packages to be dropped to unsupported.

+1.

mutlu_inek · 2007-05-10 18:13:00

Thanks for the outstanding work, iphitus!

audaly · 2007-05-12 09:09:59

Sad news....
Thanks for your work iphitus! Beyond was a really good kernel!

Plexxxy · 2007-05-14 06:02:22

Does the pkgbuild for -beyond still exist somewhere? Looks as if it's been completely wiped out of the repo's (was it really necessary to do that?) I would like to have a local copy on hand as the vanilla kernel doesn't like the raid/ata card I'm using atm, and I really don't have the time to screw around troubleshooting things to figure out why

Last edited by Plexxxy (2007-05-14 06:03:22)

dolby · 2007-05-14 06:57:46

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.25 2007/03/18 04:07:54 james Exp $
# Maintainer: iphitus <iphitus@gmail.com>
pkgname=kernel26beyond
basekernel=2.6.20
basebeyond=beyond2
pkgver=${basekernel}.${basebeyond}
_kernver=${basekernel}-beyond
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The Linux Kernel and modules, with the Beyond patchset."
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond.html"

backup=('boot/kconfig26beyond' 'etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26beyond.preset')
depends=('module-init-tools' 'mkinitcpio>=0.5.9')
provides=('kernel26')
replaces=('nforce-beyond')
install=kernel26.install

source=(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-$basekernel.tar.bz2 \
  http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/${basekernel}/${basekernel}-${basebeyond}/patch-${basekernel}-${basebeyond}.bz2 \
  #patch-${basekernel}-${basebeyond}.bz2 \
  arch-logo.patch config.i686 config.x86_64 \
  mkinitcpio-kernel26beyond.conf kernel26beyond.preset )

build() {
  [ "${CARCH}" = "i686" ]   && KARCH=i386
  [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ] && KARCH=x86_64

  cd $startdir/src/linux-$basekernel
  
  # Beyond
  patch -Np1 -i ../patch-${basekernel}-${basebeyond} || return 1 
  patch -Np1 -i ../arch-logo.patch || return 1

  # Remove the extraversion from Makefile
  sed -i 's|EXTRAVERSION = -beyond.*|EXTRAVERSION = -beyond|g' Makefile
  
  mv ../config.${CARCH} ./.config

  # build the full kernel version to use in pathnames
  . ./.config
  _kernver="${basekernel}-beyond${CONFIG_LOCALVERSION}"

  # Configuration
  make oldconfig
  make menuconfig

  # Build
  make bzImage modules || return 1
  
  # Install
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/{lib/modules,boot}
  make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$startdir/pkg modules_install || return 1
  cp System.map $startdir/pkg/boot/System.map26beyond
  cp arch/$KARCH/boot/bzImage $startdir/pkg/boot/vmlinuz26beyond
  
  install -D -m644 Makefile $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Makefile
  install -D -m644 kernel/Makefile $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/kernel/Makefile
  install -D -m644 .config  $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.config    
  install -D -m644 .config $startdir/pkg/boot/kconfig26beyond
  
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/kernel
  for i in acpi asm-generic asm-$KARCH config linux math-emu media net pcmcia scsi sound video; do
    cp -a include/$i $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/
  done

  # Module requirements
  cp  Module.symvers $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
  cp -a scripts $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
  chmod og-w -R $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/scripts
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.tmp_versions
  cp arch/$KARCH/{Makefile,Makefile.cpu} $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/
  cp arch/$KARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.s $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/kernel/
  
  # LIRC headers
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video
  cp drivers/media/video/*.h  $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/
  for i in bt8xx cpia2 cx25840 cx88 em28xx et61x251 pwc saa7134 sn9c102 usbvideo zc0301; do
   mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/$i
   cp -a drivers/media/video/$i/*.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/$i
  done
  
  # DM headers
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md
  cp drivers/md/*.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md

  # Inotify.h
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux
  cp include/linux/inotify.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux/

  # CLUSTERIP file for iptables
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/ipv4/netfilter/
  cp net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/ipv4/netfilter/
  
  # Kconfig files
  for i in `find . -name "Kconfig*"`; do 
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/`echo $i | sed 's|/Kconfig.*||'`
    cp $i $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/$i
  done
  cd $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include && ln -s asm-$KARCH asm
  chown -R root.root $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
  cd $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver} && \
    (rm -f source build; ln -sf ../../../usr/src/linux-${_kernver} build)
    
  # prepare source for binary modules   
  cd $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/build
  make prepare

  # install fallback mkinitcpio.conf file and preset file for kernel
  install -m644 -D $startdir/src/${pkgname}.preset $startdir/pkg/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset || return 1
  install -m644 -D $startdir/src/mkinitcpio-$pkgname.conf $startdir/pkg/etc/mkinitcpio.d/$pkgname-fallback.conf || return 1
  echo -e "# DO NEVER EDIT THIS FILE\nALL_kver='${_kernver}'" > ${startdir}/pkg/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.kver

  # Setup depmod
  sed -i -e "s/KERNEL_VERSION=.*/KERNEL_VERSION=${_kernver}/g" $startdir/kernel26.install
}

here u go. the latest pkgbuild for 2.6.20beyond2 that was in testing

iphitus · 2007-05-14 09:27:13

It's still in CVS too

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … root=Extra

2.6.20-beyond2 is still in testing, though im removing it tonight -- you've got until your mirror syncs to get it. The PKGBUILD should remain in cvs for a little while though.

James

Plexxxy · 2007-05-14 17:21:32

Excellent. Thanks guys!

Gweg · 2007-05-16 13:32:29

What about the archie project ?

thanks for reply

iphitus · 2007-05-16 13:38:45

Gweg wrote:

What about the archie project ?
thanks for reply

kernel26 has unionfs and squashfs support. Though afaik, they may roll their own small kernel with squashfslzma and aufs.

James

Last edited by iphitus (2007-05-16 13:39:09)

Gweg · 2007-05-16 14:29:00

indeed.

let's see when the new archie will be available when it is done

mcrae · 2007-05-16 22:55:44

Iphitus,
Darn. I just got on the beyond bandwagon for my lappy. It certainly was a nice kernel - but I guess everyone has time constraints and lives too

Thanks for the work James.

mcrae

aris002 · 2007-05-28 09:49:02

Just to say big thank you, ipithus! Your kernel is a pinacle of all linux kernels!
Sad news though. Reiser4 is my favourite. I hope that someone will cook beyond upgrades at least 2 times a year...

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