[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Paul Ezvan]

Le mardi 22 décembre 2009 à 09:49 +0100, Xavier a écrit :
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale <frankhale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when
> > the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
> > to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
> > post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
> > can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an
> > earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel
> > 2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine.
> >
> 
> Uh ? It is the same package that moves from testing to core. The move
> cannot break anything.
> When you use testing, and a package gets moved, you cannot even notice
> it, because pacman -Su won't do anything : you already have the latest
> packages.
> Maybe you want to be a bit more specific about which version exactly
> you were using ?
> If you don't know, you can check pacman logs.
> The changes to kernel26 can be seen here :
> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/trunk/?op=log&rev=0&isdir=1
> There has apparently been one revision for each stable kernel release so :
> 2.6.32-1
> 2.6.32.1-1
> 2.6.32.2-1
> 
> 2.6.32.2 contains 5 radeon patches :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2
> If you can actually confirm that this is what broke your setup, this
> narrows down the issue extremely.
> The list of changes between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 is likely awfully huge.

It seems that 2.6.32.2 is broken with r600 chips :
http://old.nabble.com/-stable--Regression-in-2.6.32.2:-radeon-KMS-hangs-system-p26864854.html
and
http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--stable---drm-radeon-kms:-fix-crtc-vblank-update-for-r600-p26869892.html.

Paul