[arch-dev-public] Kernel 2.6.29 series moved to testing

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 25 März 2009 schrieb Allan McRae:
>> Daniel Isenmann wrote:
>> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:47:08 +0100
>> >
>> > Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >> Changes:
>> >> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
>> >>
>> >> added this request:
>> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13486
>> >>
>> >> broken binary modules:
>> >> - aufs
>> >> - lirc
>> >> Please maintainers of those packages fix those.
>> >>
>> >> It seems the 2.6.29 kernel has a network issue, which will be fixed
>> >> in .29.1 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/811417
>> >> At the moment keep an downgrade kernel in your cache if you will be
>> >> affected by this bug.
>> >
>> > The new kernel runs perfectly on my system. I'm not affected by the
>> > network issue mentioned above. It looks like that NICs with a forcedeth
>> > chipset are affected. I have a Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5789
>> > Gigabit Ethernet card and it works like before.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >  Daniel
>>
>> Apart from the FPS in games going from ~50 to ~10, I have no issues
>> (with an Intel 945GM).  Going to try KMS but I haven't had much success
>> with that during the RC stage...
>>
>> Allan
> By the way do we still need aufs?

Yeah, we do - lots of external projects use it (larch, Chakra, etc),
and I do want to move the ISOs from unionfs to aufs eventually