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New IRC channels for the BuildBTW and Signstar projects
by David Runge 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

Hi all, on libera.chat [1] there are now the #archlinux-buildbtw and #archlinux-signstar channels available to chat about the BuildBTW [2] and Signstar [3] projects, respectively. Bridging to Matrix exist but only in limited scope. Please ask Arch Linux team members to be invited, if you require access via Matrix. Best, David [1]: https://libera.chat [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/buildbtw/ [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/signstar/ -- https://sleepmap.de

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by giteeajie 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

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by giteeajie 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

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[mkinitcpio] v39 released
by Morten Linderud 03 May '24

03 May '24

mkinitcpio is the initramfs generation tool written for Arch Linux. A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from Gitlab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v39 CHANGES WITH v39: Announcement of future breaking changes: * The use of global variables for getting the value of cmdline parameters is now deprecated. Hook authors should update their hooks to use the getarg function instead. See mkinitcpio(8) for more information on getarg's usage. In a future release, global variables will no longer be assigned for cmdline parameters. New Features: * ARM zImage is now supported. The relevant code paths have also been cleaned up with more code sharing between the main implementation and the shell completions. * install/acpi_override is a new hook that allows ACPI table upgrades and overrides. It will look for `.aml` files in `/usr/initcpio/acpi_override/` and `/etc/initcpio/acpi_override/` which will be copied to `/kernel/firmware/acpi/` in the early uncompressed initramfs. Changes in mkinitcpio: * Compressed files are now placed in the uncompressed early cpio instead of the compressed cpio. This change ensures we are not double compressing files. * As compressed files are included in the early cpio, module decompression has been disabled by default to avoid compressing them using a weaker compression and improve boot speed for some weak CPUs. * MODULES_DECOMPRESS will now also decompress firmware files. * The values of arbitrary cmdline arguments can now be retrieved at runtime using the getarg function. * The default umask is now 022 to ensure files installed with hooks have the permission set to 644 by default. * gzip is used instead of zstd if the kernel version is below 5.9. * `add_all_modules_from_symbol` has been fixed to ensure we are not failing if no symbols can be found. * `add_file` will now use the source file name if the destination ends with a slash. * `add_file` now supports copying from file descriptors. This is useful for cases where you want to pipe files into the initramfs. * `add_file_early` and `add_dir_early` has been added to include files into the early CPIO. * Include `--no-cmdline` in the help output along with some missing options in the shell completion. * UKIs will now be created with `ukify` if it is available on the system. Changes in lsinitcpio: * lsinitcpio now supports listing, analyzing and extracting UKIs. * It will now provide a count of the number of included modules and binaries * Fixed a bug where the `[explicit]` marks in the output was lost. Changes in hooks: * install/resume and install/systemd includes the lzo and lz4 kernel modules to support resuming from hibernation when using a hibernation image compression algorithm other than the compile-time default. * install/keyboard now includes all modules under `kernel/hid/*-hid` directories, which may be required by some keyboards. * install/keyboard removed a workaround for Linux 3.5. * install/base now includes the umount binary. This avoids the mismatch where mount was from util-linux, while umount was provided by busybox. * install/lvm2 now includes the dm-vdo module introduced in Linux 6.9. Changes in packaging: * The libalpm hook will now rebuild the initramfs when kernel modules and firmware files are removed. * mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service has gotten cleanups and hardening options enabled. `systemctl soft-reboot` pulls shutdown.target so the service is now removed from the mentioned target and included into `poweroff.target`, `halt.target`, `reboot.target` and `kexec.target`. * The distributed tarball now uses xz instead of gzip. * The Makefile now prefers to use asciidoctor if available. * Presets are now generated when mkinitcpio is installed. Contributions from: Bill Auger, Eva Kurchatova, Luke T. Shumaker, Markus Weippert, Mike Yuan, Morten Linderud, Onur Ankut, Ron Brown, classabbyamp, jay-wilkinson, nl6720 - 2024-05-03

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[mkinitcpio] v38 released
by Morten Linderud 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

mkinitcpio is the initramfs generation tool written for Arch Linux. A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from Gitlab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v38 CHANGES WITH v38: Announcement of breaking changes: * --microcode has been deprecated and replaced by the new microcode hook for early loading microcode files. New Features: * mkinitcpio gained support for generating an early CPIO image. This allows early loading of microcode and gives the possibility to create an ACPI table upgrade hook in the future. install/microcode is a new hook to install early microcode into the early CPIO. * lsinitcpio has learned to list the content of the early CPIO image. * The systemd, udev, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev hooks are now provided by mkinitcpio. The symlinked `sd-lvm2` and `mdadm` names are dropped. Changes in mkinitcpio: * mkinitcpio will filter out nonexistent firmware directories to speed up firmware lookup when adding modules. * The output of the UKI generation will now be more quiet by default. Less important information, such as temporary file paths, will be omitted unless the -v/--verbose flag is used. Changes to newly merged hooks: * install/lvm2 now includes includes dm-writecache, dm-raid, raid0, raid1, raid10, raid456 and dm-integrity kernel modules. This fixes an issue where devices are not activated in late userspace (after switch root) because pvscan in early userspace (the initramfs phase) failed to activate them because of missing kernel modules. install/lvm2 will also symlink all thin-provisioning-tools to /usr/bin/pdata_tools by searching for symlinks instead of harcoding their file names. * install/mdadm_udev now includes the mdmon binary for Intel Matrix Storage Manager (IMSM) and the systemd unit mdmon@.service. Changes in hooks: * hook/resume will now use systemd-hibernate-resume if it is available and honor the HibernateLocation EFI variable. Changes in packaging: * The libalm hook will now check if the _kver variable in a preset contains a file path or a kernel version before attemping to copy it over to /boot/. * The kernel-install hook will now prefix its output with "(mkinitcpio)". Contributions from: Christian Hesse, Jan Alexander Steffens, Luke T. Shumaker, Mike Yuan, Morten Linderud, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Philip H., Tobias Powalowski, cedric cvl, classabbyamp, nl6720 - 2024-02-28 -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[mkinitcpio] bugfix release v37.1
by Morten Linderud 03 Dec '23

03 Dec '23

A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v37… Changes since the previous release: CHANGES WITH v37.1: Bugfix release: * The 40-microcode.install kernel-install script was missing from the Makefile. Contributions from: nl6720, Vladimir Kochnev – 2023-12-03

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[mkinitcpio] v37 released
by Morten Linderud 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

mkinitcpio is the initramfs generation tool written for Arch Linux. A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from Gitlab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v37 CHANGES WITH v37: Breaking Change: * add_module_from_symbol has been renamed into add_all_modules_from_symbol. New Features: * add_checked_modules_from_symbol imports modules based off on the list generated by the autodetect hook. Similar to add_checked_modules. Changes in mkinitcpio: * Kernel version parser now supports zboot images. * /usr/local has been removed from the exported paths. * Drop-in configurations in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/ and /etc/cmdline.d/ can now be symlinks. * The kernel-install script was split into two scripts. One processing microcode (40-microcode.install) and one script for the assembly (50-mkinitcpio.install). * mkinitcpio will now to try to accurately detect the UEFI architecture during UKI generation. * The error message when binaries are not found will now be more helpful and include the name of the binary. Changes in hooks: * install/autodetect will now give up on autodetection if there are no modules found, or when encountering an error. * install/autodetect will attempt to retry its uevents lookup to try and avoid a race condition with udevadm settle. * install/consolefont now includes the setfont binary. Meaning the console font will now be loaded using the kbd project's setfont instead of the busybox's built-in one. * install/sd-vconsole now defaults to the 'us' keymap if there are no KEYMAP specified in /etc/vconsole.conf. * install/keymap and install/sd-vconsole now supports KEYMAP=@kernel in /etc/vconsole.conf which preserves the kernel keymap. * hook/consolefont now has a hack to ensure the font is changed during quiet boot. * install/block will now include all PCI controller modules to support virtio-blk devices. * install/autodetect got several changes that will more accurately try to find the correct kernel modules. * install/block will now include Linux voltage and current regulator modules as some MMC controllers require them. * install/sd-vconsole now installs systemd-vconsole-setup.service. * install/filesystems now attempts to unconditionally include external mount helper binaries needed by some filesystems. * install/block has had changes to it module list. This only affects unconditionally added modules, autodetect will still include them if they are in use. Removals: * sr_mod * firewire-sdp2 Includes: * uas * virtio_scsi * achi * nvme Changes in packaging: * The libalpm hook has a new path target (usr/lib/firmware/*) to ensure the initrd is rebuilt when firmware packages are updated. * The libalpm hook will now rebuild the initramfs when there has been changes to /usr/src/*/dkms.conf. This is to ensure DKMS modules are always updated in the initramfs. Contributions from: classabbyamp, cvlc12, Damon Harris, Emil Velikov, Evan James, Felix Yan, Gene C, Leo Pham, Maxim Mikityanskiy, Morten Linderud, nl6720, solsTiCe d'Hiver, Xiaotian Wu - 2023-11-15 -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[mkinitcpio] v36 released
by Morten Linderud 30 May '23

30 May '23

A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from Gitlab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v36 Changes since the previous release: New Features: * Kernel command line options can now be read from the drop-in directory /etc/cmdline.d/. * mkinitcpio can now be configured from the drop-in directory /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/. * Hooks can now use a find_module_from_symbol function to include modules based on symbol lookups. This is useful to include all modules that provide a given function, instead of including all of them. * The --no-cmdline option omits embedding the kernel command line files, allowing to pass kernel command line options directly through the boot entry. This is practical if you need to retain the ability to edit these options, or overrride them during boot. Changes in mkinitcpio: * preset_options can now be a bash array. * Created UKIs now contain a .uname section in the binary. * The VERSION_ID in a UKI osrel section is now suffixed with the mkinitcpio preset name (except for "default"). This makes it easier to distinguish images generated for different kernels. Changes in hooks: * A regression was fixed where the busybox init hook did not wait for devices to come online before resolving them. * run_emergencyhook is a new function that allows running functions before the emergency shell is launched. Changes in packaging: * Split out make install into two new targets. install-generator installs the generated scripts from make prepare along with kernel-install hooks. install-hooks installs the alpm hooks. install by defaults now runs both of these targets. Contributions from: Adam Maroti, Balló György, cvlc12, Joel McBride, Markus Weippert, Morten Linderud, nl6720, Yishen Miao – 2023-05-26

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[mkinitcpio] bugfix release v35.2
by nl6720 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v35… Changes since the previous release: CHANGES WITH v35.2: Bugfix release: * install/sd-vconsole: include font map and font unimap files in the initramfs. * Fix support for adding firmware files that a kernel module specifies using glob syntax. * Do not show a misleading "Possibly missing firmware for module" warning when a firmware file was already added once. * install/keymap: make sure keymap file adding works on non-UTF-8 locales. Contributions from: Balló György, nl6720 – 2023-03-24

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[mkinitcpio] bugfix release v35.1
by Morten Linderud 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

A new release of mkinitcpio has been tagged. The release can be downloaded from GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v35… Changes since the previous release: Bugfix release: * mkinitcpio failed to setup the required files in /dev/fd to support process substitution. This resulted in hooks/resume failing to work after a shellcheck fix up. Contributions from: Morten Linderud – 2023-03-19

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