On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:06 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:23:02PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > note that this build doesn't have the fix for the mmap corruption problem > > which got quite a bit of attention last week. I'll get a fixed build > > up there soon, but in the meantime, tread carefully with this one. > > I've been working on a 2.6.19 update for FC6 over the last > few weeks, and it's starting to feel 'almost ready'. > Before I push this out to updates-testing though, I'd rather > have a few people 'kick the tyres' to make sure there's > nothing really silly wrong with these. > > There are still 1-2 bits that need some more tweaking/fixing that I > already know about, but I'm blocking on other people to get those fixed. > > You can find them at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC6/ > > Notable points: > > - The big difference here vs the 2.6.19 that briefly showed up > in rawhide is that this kernel sticks with the older IDE code > (so you won't get a nasty surprise when your /dev/hda becomes sda etc). > I just don't feel comfortable pushing that as an update without > worrying about regressions. > > - Another notable change in this update: > The addition of -debug kernels. All the slowdowns and nasty dmesg-filling > debug output you've come to expect in a rawhide kernel, but in FC6! > Well, hopefully not too many of the nasty messages, but this is the > same as the other FC6 kernels, but with lockdep, slab debug etc turned on > which should prove to be useful for tracking down some of the nastier > bugs we've had in recent times. The slow-down from these kernels > isn't really *that* bad on most workloads, I tend to run with these turned > on all the time, and don't notice the difference (but Santa sometimes brings > me shinier computers than others so this may not be universally true). > > - 2.6.19-1.2888 and above are based on 2.6.19.2rc1 so have the fix for > the nasty data corruption bug that turned up in some workloads. > > So, it's there, have it at, beat it up etc. It *should* be pretty solid, > > All being well, the current plan is to get a slightly improved version > of this into updates-testing on Wednesday. I'll do an FC5 version > on the flight to LCA and will get that built and pushed to fc5-updates-testing > as soon as I get network connectivity in the land of wallabies, cork hats > and `roos. > I am now having the same problems on my laptop that I experience when using the netdev kernels. My prism54 wireless card won't get a dhcp address using NetworkManager. If I manually ifup the wireless interface it does work properly. How would you like bug reports for this kernel put into bugzilla? Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
