Kernel 2.6.37 Released

agapito · 2011-01-05 10:48:48

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v … 37.tar.bz2

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markbabc · 2011-01-05 10:51:53

w00000t!!!!!!! looking forward to an update soon!!!

Ramses de Norre · 2011-01-05 11:27:24

The hibernation compression looks nice, uswsusp is giving me headaches recently (it can't handle 32bit userland on a 64bit kernel) and I don't feel like constantly recompiling my kernel for TOI, so faster swsusp would be pretty cool
Can't wait for a package to hit testing

skodabenz · 2011-01-05 19:05:46

Looks interesting to me http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … b78fc0e100 . I waited for something like this (udev support also needed) as I use GPT partitions.

piffey · 2011-01-08 21:59:20

Can't wait. Fixes the monitor mode kernel panic issue with iwlagn. I was far too lazy to apply the patch. About how long before 2.6.37 will hit core?

combuster · 2011-01-08 22:03:55

Only thing that is not working for me is UDF. UDF still needs BKL (Big Kernel Lock), I've disabled it during rc testing but when stable came out I've enabled BKL and UDF DVD's still won't mount. Everything else looks ok.

agapito · 2011-01-08 22:05:22

2.6.37 is on testing repo.

litemotiv · 2011-01-08 23:22:26

Typing this while connected with the new Broadcom driver: win!

tomk · 2011-01-08 23:48:45

Typing this while NOT connected with the new carl9170 Atheros driver

Ah well... when's 2.6.38 coming out?

Ramses de Norre · 2011-01-08 23:53:02

Alright, pretty decent increase in hibernation speed

graysky · 2011-01-09 00:12:19

litemotiv wrote:

Typing this while connected with the new Broadcom driver: win!

Stupid question perhaps, but I have a laptop with a Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n. I modprobed broadcom and lib80211_crypt_tkip but networkmanager doesn't see it after restarting it. Is there another module needed? I used the broadcom-wl package in the AUR prior to reading this thread with hopes of native support.... perhaps my hardware isn't compat. with the new kernel mod.

I saw nothing in the 2.6.37 release notes about it...

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litemotiv · 2011-01-09 01:20:49

graysky wrote:

Stupid question perhaps, but I have a laptop with a Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n. I modprobed broadcom and lib80211_crypt_tkip but networkmanager doesn't see it after restarting it. Is there another module needed? I used the broadcom-wl package in the AUR prior to reading this thread with hopes of native support.... perhaps my hardware isn't compat. with the new kernel mod.
I saw nothing in the 2.6.37 release notes about it...

Yes, udev isn't updated yet, so you need to remove all the wireless modules and only add brcm80211 manually.

DonVla · 2011-01-09 05:18:39

Ramses de Norre wrote:

Alright, pretty decent increase in hibernation speed

Are you using the LZO compression?
I switched to LZO and I also have the impression that hibernation speed significantly increased. I don't know if this is LZO related. However, cool anyway.

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graysky · 2011-01-09 09:45:03

litemotiv wrote:

Yes, udev isn't updated yet, so you need to remove all the wireless modules and only add brcm80211 manually.

I gave that a try, but still no wireless network option... perhaps the brcm80211 isn't the right one?

.:B:. · 2011-01-09 09:58:43

According to the linux-wireless site, it is. Your model should be supported already as well.

litemotiv · 2011-01-09 10:10:42

graysky wrote:

litemotiv wrote:
Yes, udev isn't updated yet, so you need to remove all the wireless modules and only add brcm80211 manually.
I gave that a try, but still no wireless network option... perhaps the brcm80211 isn't the right one?

.:B:. wrote:

According to the linux-wireless site, it is. Your model should be supported already as well.

Also, if you used broadcom-wl before, take notice that your interface might be renamed from eth0 to wlan0.

Moving this thread to [testing].

graysky · 2011-01-09 10:13:27

@B - I see it there too... for some reason only the wl module which I build from the broadcom-wl pkg in the AUR works..

archman-cro · 2011-01-09 11:28:20

DonVla wrote:

Ramses de Norre wrote:
Alright, pretty decent increase in hibernation speed
Are you using the LZO compression?
I switched to LZO and I also have the impression that hibernation speed significantly increased. I don't know if this is LZO related. However, cool anyway.

You guys talking about pm-hibernate? Is it storing all cache on swap now? Or drops all like before?

Ramses de Norre · 2011-01-09 11:45:29

DonVla wrote:

Ramses de Norre wrote:
Alright, pretty decent increase in hibernation speed
Are you using the LZO compression?
I switched to LZO and I also have the impression that hibernation speed significantly increased. I don't know if this is LZO related. However, cool anyway.

That sounds like you had to enable LZO? I was under the impression that it was automatically enabled now since my hibernation was so much faster.

@archman-cro: yes, it's pm-hibernate we're talking about (well, more correctly the kernel back-end that it's calling). I have an empty swap on resume, so I guess it drops all caches. But in fact, my system feels faster this way after a resume than with uswsusp which saved all cache to swap.

agapito · 2011-01-09 12:09:07

I 've installed 2.6.37, no problems here. Catalyst and Virtualbox modules compiles and works fine.

SiD · 2011-01-09 14:04:39

could not update cause lirc in [extra] depends on kernel26<2.6.37

should I file a bug report or just wait a while and see if an updated lirc package hits [testing] ?

litemotiv · 2011-01-09 15:00:03

SiD wrote:

could not update cause lirc in [extra] depends on kernel26<2.6.37
should I file a bug report or just wait a while and see if an updated lirc package hits [testing] ?

Ideally you should remove lirc, install the new kernel, then build lirc from abs with the depends line <2.6.38 and see if everything works okay. If yes, you can file a report for lirc, asking the maintainer to bump the version.

amirs · 2011-01-09 15:58:32

@tomk carl9170 works great see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#carl9170

DonVla · 2011-01-09 16:29:23

archman-cro wrote:

You guys talking about pm-hibernate? Is it storing all cache on swap now? Or drops all like before?

Till 2.6.36.2 I used pm-hibernate (which I personally dislike), now I switched to "echo [disk|mem] > /sys/power/state" which works great.

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DonVla · 2011-01-09 16:45:40

Ramses de Norre wrote:

DonVla wrote:
Ramses de Norre wrote:
Alright, pretty decent increase in hibernation speed
Are you using the LZO compression?
I switched to LZO and I also have the impression that hibernation speed significantly increased. I don't know if this is LZO related. However, cool anyway.
That sounds like you had to enable LZO? I was under the impression that it was automatically enabled now since my hibernation was so much faster.

I enabled LZO for the normal kernel compression and I thought this also applies to hibernation (I think this is wrong).
But I cannot imagine that LZO is automatically enabled. What about a too small swap partition? Gzip decreases the image size by 50% , LZO is not that efficient (but faster).

@archman-cro: yes, it's pm-hibernate we're talking about (well, more correctly the kernel back-end that it's calling). I have an empty swap on resume, so I guess it drops all caches. But in fact, my system feels faster this way after a resume than with uswsusp which saved all cache to swap.

I also noticed that swap is now almost empty after resuming.

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