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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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[extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

news from the kernel26mm kernel!

- UML updates

- fbdev updates

- nfs4 server updates

- new megaraid driver, new iscsi driver, fatfs update, fbdev updates,
  kitchen sink.

- The below description of what has been added and what has been merged is
  proabably a bit more inaccurate than usual do to my haveing shuffled things
  around and confusing myself.

- I dropped the list-of-all-patches from this email due to it being rather
  long.  The unexpurgated version is at
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/p … nounce.txt

... but the really cool thing is that pwc (philips usb webcam driver) is now included as module

the diff to the config is here:
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … h_tag=HEAD

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

Can I ask a slightly OT question about this? How does kernel26mm-2.6.11 get into extra, while kernel26-2.6.11 is still in testing?

Only mildly curious but the way - I always compile my own...

dp

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Re: [extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

Can I ask a slightly OT question about this? How does kernel26mm-2.6.11 get into extra, while kernel26-2.6.11 is still in testing?

Only mildly curious but the way - I always compile my own...

kernel26 is the official kernel used for archlinux.

kernel26mm is the kernel from the mm-tree and only maintained by me because i use it myself. as it comes with newer drivers, some users prefer the mm-tree and therefore i keep it in extra. however, it will never be part of an archlinux installation cd or official. (you have to do a pacman -S kernel26mm and add vmlinuz26mm to the bootloader to use it - and this you will do only if you know what you do - on the other hand with the default kernel on the installation cd, you have the kernel set-up and therefore kernel26 must be (and is) more failsafe than kernel26mm)

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dp

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Re: [extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

...
  INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-lib.ko
  INSTALL sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.ko
if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /home/damir/cvsARCH/extra/kernels/kernel26mm/pkg -r 2.6.11-mm2-ARCH; fi
==> Compressing man pages...
==> Stripping debugging symbols from libraries...
==> Stripping symbols from binaries...
==> Generating .PKGINFO file...
==> Copying install script...
==> Generating .FILELIST file...
==> Compressing package...
==> Finished making: kernel26mm  (Wed Mar  9 13:52:24 CET 2005)
[damir@Asteraceae kernel26mm]$ su
Password:
pacm[root@Asteraceae kernel26mm]# pacman -U kernel26mm-2.6.11.mm2-1.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
upgrading kernel26mm... done.

==> If you use the LILO bootloader, you should run 'lilo' after upgrading.

==> If you install the mm-kernel the first time, don't forget to add vmlinuz26mm
==> to your bootloader to be able to also boot it.

==> NOTE:
==> The kernel26mm pkg is NOT the official kernel for a standard ArchLinux
==> installation! Use kernel26 or kernel24 instead.
==> Success or Failure with this kernel can be discussed in the forum, or you
==> can email me <damir@archlinux.org>.

[root@Asteraceae kernel26mm]#   

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

Thanks dp - another increase in my understanding of all things Arch.

Pajaro

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Re: [extra]: kernel26mm 2.6.11.mm2

pwc!!!!!

again!!!