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Wedge_
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 Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject: 2.6.1-love1 - "May not destroy your computer" |
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After a suspiciously long half hour, here is 2.6.1-love1 
What's included:- 2.6.1-mm1
- Cons VM swappiness
- Nicks selectable IO scheduler patch
- Bootsplash
- Vesa framebuffer refresh rate patch
- orinoco monitor mode patch
- packet writing
- Reiser4
- Bluetooth patches
- for the brave, kexec() is included..
No nvidia-agp, it IS back in the kernel.
No ALSA either, -mm1 includes the latest ALSA (1.0.1)
If anyone has the htpc/radeon-igp patches, send me them and I'll put them in.
Get everything here: http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/love-sources/2.6.1/2.6.1-love1/
I've also added a broken-out dir which has the individual patches.
Edit: all the patches should now be in there.
Edit #2:
* Removed kexec
* Added nforce2-apic-fix.patch
* Added elv-init-cleanup.patch
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Oh nice work wedge! Thank you!
I will compile and test it when i'm finished with learning ( french... ). |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Downloading now, will let you know how it goes.
Great work 
| Dinini wrote: | | cp 2.6.1-love1.patch.bz /usr/portage/distfiles/2.6.1-love1-r1.patch.bz2 |
Important point, it won't make the digest properly otherwise.
Ebuild is fixed now, so no need to rename the patch if you download it manually.
Compiles fine, rebooting to the new one in a minute.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Giving it a go right away...
Really nice work  |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| cp 2.6.1-love1.patch.bz /usr/portage/distfiles/2.6.1-love1-r1.patch.bz2 |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job Wedge_. I'll patch in the radeon and htpc patches once I get back to the dorms (either later today or early tomorrow). Good idea on the kexec patch, that is one that I was playing with. The rest look good.
Excellent Job.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't bother waiting earlier, so I patched 2.6.1 with -mm1, bootsplash, and cons vm swappiness. I got three hard lockups before reverting to 2.6.1-rc1-love1. (athlon xp 2800+, nforce2, geforce) |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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I can get a little further with packet writing using this release. The pktsetup program works instead of segfaulting, but it dies when I try to mount the drive 
| steel300 wrote: | | I'll patch in the radeon and htpc patches once I get back to the dorms (either later today or early tomorrow). |
Thanks, I won't bother trying to find them then.
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Nice work Wedge_
Has the UDF patches changed? or are they the same as the other rc1&2 releases?
Also wondered if it still included the LIRC patches?
cheers
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| scoobydu wrote: | Nice work Wedge_
Has the UDF patches changed? or are they the same as the other rc1&2 releases?
Also wondered if it still included the LIRC patches?
cheers
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I'm putting the LIRC patches in either today or tomorrow. I'm hoping Wedge_ found the latest UDF Packet writing patches. They are different than the ones that I've used before.
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hmm.. emerging it not working for some reason;
i will try patching manually
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: probs with Arts? |
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At the moment I'm running 2.6.1-mm1 (might go love1 if I can back reiser4 out). But with this (& 2.6.1rc2-mm1), I'm seeing a big slowdown if the arts server is active. Anyone else noticed this?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| neenee wrote: | hmm.. emerging it not working for some reason;
i will try patching manually |
What wasn't working?
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| steel300 wrote: | | scoobydu wrote: | Nice work Wedge_
Has the UDF patches changed? or are they the same as the other rc1&2 releases?
Also wondered if it still included the LIRC patches?
cheers
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I'm putting the LIRC patches in either today or tomorrow. I'm hoping Wedge_ found the latest UDF Packet writing patches. They are different than the ones that I've used before. |
Thanks steel
Just seen Wedges update on UDF, thanks guys ...
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| I'm still left wondering why that nvidia-agp code was removed in the first place ;p |
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| Parak wrote: | | I'm still left wondering why that nvidia-agp code was removed in the first place ;p |
Ah, you are still around All it says in the changelog was that it was dropped "partly deliberately" then forgotten about. Silly kernel devs
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| neenee wrote: | hmm.. emerging it not working for some reason;
i will try patching manually |
The patch file is mis-referenced in the ebuild. the cp command I listed earlier will allow you to digest and emerge. Though it patches just fine manually too |
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| Dinini wrote: | | The patch file is mis-referenced in the ebuild. the cp command I listed earlier will allow you to digest and emerge. Though it patches just fine manually too |
Ah, sorry about that, I gave it the wrong name when I uploaded it  Fixed now.
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| So, i have to download the ebuild, cp the batch in the /distfiles/ dir and then ebuild <.> digest the ebuild und emerge it? Or something wrong? |
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It should work normally now. Do "ebuild love-sources-x.y.z digest" and it should download the patch, then emerge normally.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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I just noticed we have a naming problem. As last love kernel was 2.6.1-r3 and this is 2.6.1-r1, portage thinks r3 is newer.
So maybe we should discuss a naming scheme to be obeyed. Probably rc kernels shouldn't get stable naming (as 2.6.1-r3 got). |
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patching manually worked fine for me. i am
running it now without any problems. thanks
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| PrakashKC wrote: | | I just noticed we have a naming problem. As last love kernel was 2.6.1-r3 and this is 2.6.1-r1, portage thinks r3 is newer. |
I didn't notice, I'd already deleted most of the older ebuilds.
| PrakashKC wrote: | | So maybe we should discuss a naming scheme to be obeyed. Probably rc kernels shouldn't get stable naming (as 2.6.1-r3 got). |
Sounds good to me.
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For anyone who wants to try kexec:
Once you've compiled the kernel with kexec support, you need to get kexec-tools. Extract them somewhere (I didn't make an ebuild, if anyone wants to go ahead), and cd into the directory created. Open kexec/kexec-syscall.c in an editor and look for the line that says | Code: | | #define __NR_kexec_load 259 |
Change it to | Code: | | #define __NR_kexec_load 274 |
then run "make" to compile the tools. This creates two files under objdir/build, sbin/kexec and bin/kexec_test. I'm not exactly sure what kexec_test is supposed to do (you need to run it with "kexec kexec_test") but all it seemed to do was cause a normal reboot. To load a new kernel using kexec, use | Code: | | objdir/build/sbin/kexec --command-line="`cat /proc/cmdline`" -l -f /boot/bzImage |
You should see a line saying "Starting new kernel", then the usual boot messages should start scrolling past as if you'd just left the bootloader. It doesn't seem to like the framebuffer - it prints the "Starting new kernel" message, then doesn't display anything else, but the system does actually load the new kernel. If you want to try it but have framebuffer enabled, you can just remove the vga=/video= options from your bootloader temporarily, that seems to work for me.
I'm also not sure of the best way to use it. When you run the kexec command, it loads the new kernel immediately, which can screw things up as filesystems don't get unmounted properly, and hardware isn't reset etc. The 3Com NIC on my nForce2 in particular didn't like this, and gave all sorts of errors once the new kernel had loaded. If anyone has suggestions on the best way to go through the usual pre-reboot procedure but to run kexec instead of reboot, please post them.
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