[arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 enters testing

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 08:30:50 EDT 2011


On 25 July 2011 13:13, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:34:35 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> first try with 3.0 kernel,
>> nvidia legacy is not building, due to some makefile conftest
>> restriction, patches are welcome.
>>
>> Have fun and find issues.
>>
>> greetings
>> tpowa
>
> Also note that the current version is 3.0.0-ARCH instead of 3.0-ARCH.
> This means external modules like nvidia etc. need to be rebuilt on every
> minor kernel update. But we would need to check if tools would accept a
> short version like 3.0 if we want to change that.

I suggest we go for 3.0-ARCH; didn't notice any issues doing that [1]
on my desktop. :]

[1] http://pkgbuild.com/~foutrelis/remove-sublevel.patch


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