2.6.8-nitro1 "Brute Horse Attack"

seppe · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject: 2.6.8-nitro1 "Brute Horse Attack"

Here is the new nitro horsepower for the 2.6.8 kernel!

applied patches:

WaVeX · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:

Wow that was quick. Screw homework, I have compiling to do!!!! :lol:

Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

Nice one seppe,

Well, it patches and compiles fine.

Reiser4 is working very well here - don't forget to update to reiser4progs v1.0.0 asap!!

win4lin won't work and will continue to fail until I get round to fixing the patch, or if someone else happens to fix it in the meantime (even when I get a working test rig I will still wait until Netraverse release 2.6.8 patches before adding anymore win4lin patches to my site).

Anyway, it feels good and responsive.

Thanks

P.S. it will be worth adding the 2.6.8.1 patch (an important NFS fix).

See the changelog entry here (also download the patch or an entire 2.6.8.1 kernel from there)

Cagnulein · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

is it coming from 2.6.8.1, isn't it?

seppe · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject:

no, I haven't applied the 2.6.8.1 patch. I knew about it 5 minutes after I announced this release. :roll:

Anyway, you can apply it yourself if you use NFS and you care much about security:

download http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.8.1.bz2

cd /usr/src/linux
bzcat /path/to/patch-2.6.8.1.bz2 | patch -p1

I haven't tested it myself, but normally it should apply without failed hunks.
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DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

seppe, I thought your first few patchsets were utter BS but I'm seeing really good stuff coming from you.. and you just saved me doing this myself

Perhaps I can be of some assistance to you with patches and stuff.

Gouranga!
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seppe · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the good comments, DaMouse.

I admit that I used your CK snapshots before

Of course you can help me. Stuff I don't like now is:
1. I use an older reiser4 patch, I tried to apply the latest reiser4 patch but I couldn't fix all the rejects

supermount and win4lin changed a lot of files
2. swsusp2 should be in, but I get many rejects. Though, dryre is working on this too.
3. I want to add ipw2100 patch, but it doesn't generate the right Makefile or something :/

There is a #nitro-sources channel at irc.freenode.net
perhaps you can catch me there?

I have also a patchfile of this release that includes everything except reiser4, maybe thats handy?
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Cagnulein · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject:

black hole sun · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 245

Okay I just applied the patch in the vanilla 2.6.8 dir, compiling kernel now. Lets see how it goes...

Robin79 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Thanx i hope this will be in the same class as rc2-nitro1

the most stable kernel i ve ever used

and i will always have it in here for some nice not locking time

See after reboot

lot of reboots latley

Edit. thanx for the write barriers paches in this one edit.
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luqas · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

Damn seppe you are a machine.... Trying it now!!! Still working on swsusp though

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Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

Emerging it now

. Great name btw.

Tazok · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 310

The 2.6.8.1 patch does not apply...

seppe · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

I thought of that too actually, but like Brute Horse Attack better.

Tazok · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 310

luqas · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:36 am Post subject:

Don't worry about the Makefile rej. All it is having problems with is changing the version number. Just manually edit the Makefile before you compile to equal:

Isaiah · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 359

It's nice to be able to play ET again on the old test box - thanks seppe

Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

When I add barrier=1 to the fs options in fstab for /, which is ext3, upon bootup it can't remount the partition rw. When it last did this the kernel didn't have writebarriers so that was to be expected and pretty stupid of me, but this release supposedly has them and it still does it. Is there an option in the menuconfig for enabling it that I overlooked?
(Also, is there any way to fix it without having to use a LiveCD? Knoppix starts up ssllllooowwww. I tried mounting it with -o remount, in which case it said wtf am I saying it's not mounted, and then without, and then it told me that it was, in fact, already mounted. :roll:

)

Tazok · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 310

y0zza · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Changing Makefile as seppe suggested works.

Tazok · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 310

Yes, you are right.
Changing the Makefile did not work for me, so I just deleted the first diff of the patch.
Now running fine here.

y0zza · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Ok, all seems to be working pretty well after some tinkering. vesafb-tng still doesn't work for me - same oops very early during bootup as in 2.6.8-rc3-nitro1. UHCI USB also hangs during bootup when compiled into the kernel, but works fine when compiled as a module O.o.

The system does feel very responsive compared to 2.6.7-gentoo-r11, so I'm happy

Many thanks indeed for this patchset.

Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

If you want to update this nitro with the 2.6.8.1 error fix then apply the patch below.

essential to update nitro1 if:

You use nfs

not essential to update if:

You don't use nfs

For some reason, a lot of fuss has been made over this simple fix. It is not a nice little upgrade or security fix that could be ignored if you use nfs. It is code that was simply forgotten to be put in the kernel, a simple mistake. It is required to make nfs work correctly.

So, to apply the simple fix without having to fix rejects and the like yourself, do the following things, in this order and all will be fixed for you:

1. download the adjusted fix from here

2. cd into your nitro1 kernel directory (ie: cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-nitro1)

3. enter the following command:

pleusicles · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 44

I have the same problem as Illissius with reiserfs + barrier=flush