[arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

Ray Kohler ataraxia937 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 15:29:00 EST 2010


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> kernel 2.6.33 first test run ...
>
> Upstream changes:
> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
>
> Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests:
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18249 # added HPET
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17970 # added CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_PAC7302
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17791 # added UTS_NAMESPACE
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17756 # added CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER for WCHAN
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16715 # added Linux Container support
> - added jfs and reiserfs statistics
>
> Arch Linux changes:
> - changed radeon kms enabled by default
> - merged ext2/ext3 support into ext4 module
> - nouveau module is still provided as out-of-tree module, it's more up to
>  date.
>
> Broken binary modules:
> - lirc,fcpcmcia,madwifi,tiacx though no fix available yet.
>
> Needs to rebuild:
> - 686 modem binary modules

This kernel is working well on all of my machines that I've been able
to test so far. All of them use ext4 and nouveau.


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