[arch-dev-public] [announcement] kernel26 2.6.32 announcement draft

[Tobias Powalowski]

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





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