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Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Lots of patches for your kernel: kernel26-patchy

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25432

I was using kernel26-ice and I kept adding patches to it so I thought, why not just fork it and create a new package for myself so I don't have to modify kernel26-ice everytime something changes. So here it is. List of patches:

* various ext4 patches
* dsdt patch to load dsdt from initramfs
* fbcondecor
* sysctl-check
* tuxonice
* sreadahead for speeding up boot on SSDs (I have yet to benchmark this though)

If you find any problems please report, I'm sure there's something I've missed.

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Lots of patches for your kernel: kernel26-patchy

Note that sreadahead doesn't work for 2.6.29 for now, the userspace tool needs to be updated for 2.6.29 IIRC. If you find any other patches you think I should include, please let me know.

ugkbunb

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 227

Re: Lots of patches for your kernel: kernel26-patchy

how about the preempt real-time patch? nice work

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Lots of patches for your kernel: kernel26-patchy

how about the preempt real-time patch? nice work

It can't coexist with tuxonice at the moment. The patches are incompatible in terms of applying them to the kernel. I'm sure someone with more experience could fix this though... it's "just" a matter of diffing linux 2.6.29-rt6 to this kernel, I guess?

ugkbunb

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 227

Re: Lots of patches for your kernel: kernel26-patchy

^^
Roger... I installed this kernel on my laptop... thanks again!

I will take a look at the patches when I get some freetime, atm swapped with my final semester at the University... hopefully it just requires a slight change to one of the patches.