[arch-dev-public] [announcement] kernel26 2.6.32 announcement draft
Hi arch community, The new 2.6.32 kernel series moved to the [core] repository. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 # added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE KMS changes: - changed intel kms enabled by default - radeon kms is now disabled by default Please use the modeset option to enable it. - Early userspace KMS support is broken at the moment for radeon and nvidia cards. There are some workarounds posted on ML and on the forum. Next mkinitcpio update will fix this regression in the future. Arch Linux changes: - splitted kernel-headers to extra package If you want to build external modules please install: pacman -S kernel26-headers Please change your PKGBUILDS to makedepend on this package. - added xen support to 64bit kernel - changed to new firewire subsystem: http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:03:45 +0100 Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
KMS changes: - changed intel kms enabled by default - radeon kms is now disabled by default Please use the modeset option to enable it. - Early userspace KMS support is broken at the moment for radeon and nvidia cards. There are some workarounds posted on ML and on the forum. Next mkinitcpio update will fix this regression in the future. maybe add (a) link(s) here? maybe mention more explicitly if this will cause issues by default or not. (kms is disabled for nvidia, right?. maybe add that too)
Dieter
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:01:19 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:03:45 +0100 Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
KMS changes: - changed intel kms enabled by default - radeon kms is now disabled by default Please use the modeset option to enable it. - Early userspace KMS support is broken at the moment for radeon and nvidia cards. There are some workarounds posted on ML and on the forum. Next mkinitcpio update will fix this regression in the future. maybe add (a) link(s) here? maybe mention more explicitly if this will cause issues by default or not. (kms is disabled for nvidia, right?. maybe add that too)
Dieter
my suggestions were not good? http://www.archlinux.org/news/477/ Dieter
Am Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:01:19 +0100
Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:03:45 +0100
Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
KMS changes: - changed intel kms enabled by default - radeon kms is now disabled by default Please use the modeset option to enable it. - Early userspace KMS support is broken at the moment for radeon and nvidia cards. There are some workarounds posted on ML and on the forum. Next mkinitcpio update will fix this regression in the future.
maybe add (a) link(s) here? maybe mention more explicitly if this will cause issues by default or not. (kms is disabled for nvidia, right?. maybe add that too)
Dieter
my suggestions were not good? http://www.archlinux.org/news/477/
Dieter
Well it was not bad but haven't had the time for looking at an exact link. Will correct this tomorrow. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
Tobias Powalowski wrote: <snip>
Arch Linux changes: - splitted kernel-headers to extra package
split kernel-headers. There is no word "splitted". Allan
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Allan McRae
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Dieter Plaetinck
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Tobias Powalowski