[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34-2

[Andreas Radke]

Am Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:10:44 +0200
schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:

> Am 19.06.2010 14:03, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> > This release will be moved to core after signoff, together with
> > linux-firmware, initscripts, udev and mkinitcpio. Changes compared
> > to -1:
> > 
> > Remove kernel26-firmware package, it is replaced by linux-firmware
> > added new tcp options FS#19604 (tpowa)
> > Enable devtmpfs
> > Add makedepends to build kernel26-{manpages,docs} properly
> > Fix makepkg -R
> > 
> > Please sign off.
> > 
> 
> Okay, one of the Xorg guys (Jan, Andy?) should draft a new
> announcement about 1) configuration changes with the new Xorg
> (xorg.conf.d, hal removed), 2) dropping nvidia-{173xx,96xx} until
> nvidia releases updated versions.
> 
> It seems we want to move Xorg and the kernel at the same time, so that
> announce should be out before the move.
> 

We already had 

http://www.archlinux.org/news/499/ +
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-April/016387.html

Changes to input device configuration are collected in our wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29

Just point to this section.

Ati and Nouveau changes should work without any interaction. No idea
about the closed drivers. I don't follow them. If you think we need an
announcement just point to the wiki and maybe the old news and add a
note about NVidia changes.

-Andy