On 03/31/2011 08:40 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Features included:

• latest stable patches
• disabled /dev/kmem
• added AMD_IOMMU support
• kernel image is now xz compressed
• NUMA is enabled on x86_64
• AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled
• aufs2.1 latest snapshot
• added additional i915 patch
• added radeaon kms fix

greetings tpowa

signoff i686

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.powa@gmx.de wrote:

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Features included:

• latest stable patches
• disabled /dev/kmem
• added AMD_IOMMU support
• kernel image is now xz compressed
• NUMA is enabled on x86_64
• AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled
• aufs2.1 latest snapshot
• added additional i915 patch
• added radeaon kms fix

greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

signoff x86_64

Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Thu 31-Mar-11 07:40:

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Features included:

• latest stable patches
• disabled /dev/kmem
• added AMD_IOMMU support
• kernel image is now xz compressed
• NUMA is enabled on x86_64
• AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled
• aufs2.1 latest snapshot
• added additional i915 patch
• added radeaon kms fix

signoff x86_64

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.powa@gmx.de wrote:

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Features included:

• latest stable patches
• disabled /dev/kmem
• added AMD_IOMMU support
• kernel image is now xz compressed
• NUMA is enabled on x86_64
• AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled
• aufs2.1 latest snapshot
• added additional i915 patch
• added radeaon kms fix

no probs here since release.

[ i686 ] asus s101 ( i915, ath9k, btrfs, ... )

[ x86_64 ] dell m4300 ( nouveau, iwl3945, btrfs, ... )

C Anthony

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:08:09 +0200, Adrian C. wrote:

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

...

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Can't signoff i686. LILO can not boot it.

# /sbin/lilo -v ... Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loaer

Machines would be left in a constant state of reboot if it is missed by a user.

I don't think Lilo should be a show stopper. Use a more modern bootloader such as Syslinux (if you want simple), Grub 1 or Grub 2.

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:

I don't think Lilo should be a show stopper. Use a more modern bootloader such as Syslinux (if you want simple), Grub 1 or Grub 2.

Modern, like grub? LILO is in [core], and is actively being developed.

It was also a part of the Arch installation from which i got it in the first place. Now, I agree it doesn't have to be a show stopper, but some serious warnings are needed at least. There are many more users out there, be sure of that. In fact, here they are already, saying pretty much the same things I am going to say below: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116077

Grub1 is considered obsolete? It has bugs, lacks features, it has many forks, all of them now pretty much forgotten. Last time I considered grub2 it was still "development grade" and I also got a feeling of frequent user problems from the list, bug tracker and BBS. LILO on the other hand never failed to boot.

I would never trade LILO for grub, but I am contemplating a switch to syslinux since I saw a video of Dieter's talk at FOSDEM.

Just out of interest, are you only booting this kernel with lilo or others too?

Just LILO, I haven't tried grub, but did wrote a menu.lst in advance if I had to.

On 04/04/2011 03:08 PM, Adrian C. wrote:

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:

...

I don't think Lilo should be a show stopper. Use a more modern bootloader such as Syslinux (if you want simple), Grub 1 or Grub 2.

Modern, like grub? LILO is in [core], and is actively being developed.

It was also a part of the Arch installation from which i got it in the first place. Now, I agree it doesn't have to be a show stopper, but some serious warnings are needed at least. There are many more users out there, be sure of that. In fact, here they are already, saying pretty much the same things I am going to say below: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116077

Grub1 is considered obsolete? It has bugs, lacks features, it has many forks, all of them now pretty much forgotten. Last time I considered grub2 it was still "development grade" and I also got a feeling of frequent user problems from the list, bug tracker and BBS. LILO on the other hand never failed to boot.

I would never trade LILO for grub, but I am contemplating a switch to syslinux since I saw a video of Dieter's talk at FOSDEM.

...

Just out of interest, are you only booting this kernel with lilo or others too?

Just LILO, I haven't tried grub, but did wrote a menu.lst in advance if I had to.

-- Adrian C. (anrxc) | anrxc..sysphere.org | PGP ID: D20A0618 PGP FP: 02A5 628A D8EE 2A93 996E 929F D5CB 31B7 D20A 0618

Didn't realize that Lilo was still being developed. A lot of people seem to think Syslinux is older than pie too!

I would highly encourage looking at Syslinux. It has a simple configuration like Lilo and it is as light or heavy as you want to make it.

Without any com32 modules you are given just a boot prompt and you can load the menu.c32 (basic menu like lilo) or vesamenu.c32 modules. Also, you can edit the boot parameters on the fly and modify the config without updating Syslinux.

On 03/31/2011 08:40 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.

Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Features included:

• latest stable patches
• disabled /dev/kmem
• added AMD_IOMMU support
• kernel image is now xz compressed
• NUMA is enabled on x86_64
• AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled
• aufs2.1 latest snapshot
• added additional i915 patch
• added radeaon kms fix

greetings tpowa

This is a bit overdue, sorry.

-1 from me. My system locks up while resuming from hibernation. Upstream bug report is here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32652