2.6.0-test11-love4

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i tried that as well, but it failed here when compiling.

PrakashP · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject:

Nick's CPU scheduler exists in two patch versions for mm and for Linux tree. So it doesn't surprise me that love4 won't cleanly apply to 2.6 release.

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:52 pm Post subject:

EXTRAVERSION is also set in the ebuild I think - so the patch might be good but the ebuild fucks us over.

AS scheduler has this been "unfixed" yet?

2.6.0-love will come once time allows, I'm sure.

steel300: TESTBEDS.. fancy smanchy are we? I wish I could afford testbed machines for my stuff. anyways ROCK ON !!

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i just tried applying the patch for fun. i didn't really
expect it to work, but it would have been a nice sur-
prise :wink:

i even checked nicks' work and tried to apply various
patches of his and played a bit with diff, but i didn't
have time to do more than play.

somehow scheduled meetings can still surprise me

steel300 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1155

The new testbeds won't be fancy. The will be merely spare parts I have lying around with no other purpose. Break will just give me time to assemble everything.
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relyt · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject:

didl · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject:

relyt · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:42 am Post subject:

jojobobo · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 29 Location: USA

These new sources are great! They fixed some sound problems that I had with Enemy Territory and Unreal Tournament 2003. Also, there was some studdering and sound warping when using Alsa's OSS emulation, but that also got fixed.

I also tried compiling radeonfb, since I've been hearing about people and their success with the 2.6 test sources (specifically the mm-sources). Had to compile in the 4GB Memory/Userspace option. Slowed the system down a whole lot.

Can't wait for the final patches for 2.6 stable!

Keep up the good work!

didl · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

Safrax · Guru Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 422

Can I request a patch to be added to the patchset? The orinoco monitor mode patch.

You can get it from here:

http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html

didl · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject:

Neuros · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:17 am Post subject:

So, I just successfully emerged the ebuild for love4 ... do I have to do anything before I just configure and compile this bad boy?
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Neuros · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:47 am Post subject:

How are you guys patching this to the 2.6.0 stable? I've been looking at some howtos, but my attempts keep failling. Do I just have to stick with test11?
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Lovechild · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:11 am Post subject:

Here's how to do it I would think

emerge development-sources (to get 2.6.0)
cd /usr/src
wget [url]
bzcat [patch filename] | patch -p1

hope it applies (I won't promise you that it will - I haven't tested it)

and if it does

cd linux
make menuconfig

Lovechild · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:11 am Post subject:

Neuros · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 4:52 am Post subject:

You're damn right I need to pay Steel300 ... I feel such an obligation even though I haven't compiled ... Maybe I can get an answer to another question: Are there certain things in the kernel that I DO NOT want to turn off that will make null my attempts to use love-sources? i.e., 'select only drivers that will compile cleanly' ??? What is in here that I don't want to turn off so that I actually am using the love-sources? Does the question make sense?
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Vagabond · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 192

AFAIK most of the important stuff is intgrated in anyway ( the scheduler), the alsa upgrades replace the alsa in the kernel, the more cosmetic things like bootsplash have to be enabled manually.

This love patch seems quite a good one BTW, hasn't messed up on me yet

Vag

Lovechild · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:22 am Post subject:

http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v28p1.gz

Nick has updated his scheduler.

nybbles · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 55 Location: Vancouver

Granted I've been using the love patches for test11 for a while now, I'd like to ask two questions:

What advantages/disadvantages does the 2.6.* kernel have over the 2.4.* kernel? (Very briefly, I guess... I've read about how its got better multitasking/threading thingies)...

And also what advantages/disadvantages do the love-sources have over the unpatched 2.6 kernel and the mm-sources?

I have to justify using it. So far the main reason I am using it is because it is (was until recently) the bleeding edge kernel and 'love-sources' makes me sound even cooler than 'development-sources'.

Thanks!
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Lovechild · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:26 pm Post subject:

nybbles · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 55 Location: Vancouver

Lovechild · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:11 pm Post subject:

merkaba · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 56

dmesg says:
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.19.
here's a good thread about bootsplash: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036
not sure exactly what vesafb high freq is.