2.6.8-rc2-love2 "Mentholated Tube Socks"

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

hi again.

this release has been coated in the minty freshness of mentholation;
if all fails, at least your system will go down smelling like a dream

this release patches to 2.6.8-rc2 vanila

this patch includes:

izomorfix · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

COOOL!
It would be nice if you could add the CDFS patch because many people use it, not just a few.
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

where were you during the last two releases

or any one of those other 'many cdfs users'

izomorfix · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:

Well, for the last 5 weeks, I've been practicing the guitar, and I didn't have time for kernel downloads and recompilation etc etc..... because I'm on dialup.

Sorry for that. :knocking head to a wall:
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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

it's ok. it's no excuse for the many others though - unless they
decided to go to your place and listen to you playing guitar :wink:

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

2 simple questions:
* could u add Win4Lin as standard in the patches..? If not its ok too but I would be very happy with it
* And of course (i keep asking this

) can u add swsusp2 as a standard patch to it? I keep getting massive errors while patching... and I am not such a kernel-whizzz that I can fix them all

* What is that vesa-rrc patch for?

Chaosite · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Win4Lin is broken sometimes, and sometimes not...
And theres a good patch to put it in.

Vesafb-rrc is the predecessor to vesafb-tng. Its a hack by spock (rhymes

) to give you a higher refresh rate in the console. For some people vesafb-rrc works better (or at all) then vesafb-tng, so they use that.

Overall, vesafb-tng is a much better option.

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Der_Kaplan · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 23

but this time i have a compile error.
[ the first time, since i usr the love sources :-)

]

CHK include/linux/compile.h
GEN .version
CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/i386/lib/lib.a(usercopy.o)(.text+0x2c7): In function `__copy_to_user_ll':
: undefined reference to `movsl_mask'
arch/i386/lib/lib.a(usercopy.o)(.text+0x327): In function `__copy_from_user_ll':
: undefined reference to `movsl_mask'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Fehler 1

does anybody have such a problem ?

(compiles clean with every other releases of love)
(only thing i did, was a make oldconfig)
(patches apply clean)

and there is something curious:
Kernel internal timer frequency
in -> Processor type and features

and Kernel internal timer frequency
in -> Main Menu

Kaplan

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

Is the plan to keep the new "love-lite" format then, or are going to creep back to the old "can we include the KitchenSink3.1 patch pls?" way of doing things.

Personally, I like love-lite. The releases come out fast, (which is important in a patchset as unstable as love), and people can releases (and are releasing) patches against the love tree for stuff they need.

Of course, there's nothing except R4 that I desperately need ATM, so I suppose I would see it like that.

Anyway, either way would be fine, but if you do decide to stick with the lightweight approach, it might be wise to get that FAQ up and running.

All this and I've not even installed version - too busy enjoying the old one

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Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

I think it is going to stay as the love-lite version, but it will cause problems as people add 'official' love patches to it, such as win4lin and then rrc for example.

The problems will occur as each patch changes the code and so the likelyhood of the next addon failing is increased.

However, I think neenee is planning to do a love-lite base with a single official love-addon patch with all the addons included - not sure how that will work if someone wants tng and win4lin - but we'll see. It always works out in the end

btw: neenee, thanks for the release - it's working fine here.

Blutkind · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 35

Hey i have your fix.
from neenee, to you. Pretty simple
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
General setup ---> Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> Supported processor vendors ---> [*] Support Intel processors & [*] Support AMD processors (Or whichever cpu you use)But intel is a required supported processor. for your compile error to go away.

spb · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

Can I officially request the delete-devfs patch in the next love? It (devfs, not the patch) really must die.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

devfs... Now that's something I do use, at least until I can figure out how to make udev work with ipw2100...
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Der_Kaplan · n00b Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 23

THANKS to Blutkind !

thats it :-)

now it is compiling fine!
i didn't recognize these features....

(and thanks to neenee)

Blutkind · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 35

No problemo me amigo.
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mfkr79 · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

This release works better for me than the previous...now setting timeslice to 16 brings no mouse-lag problems at all, system responsiveness seems good as in all love series
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m0sia · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 113

what is this "barrier patch" for?
sorry for dumb question.

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

i linked to an article describing barriers in the first post of this thread.

but to summarize it a bit:

barriers allow filesystems to properly control the writing of data to disks,
increasing stability and preventing various problems (as i understand it).

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

It supports atomic transactions for ext3 and reiser3. Which means that if your system crashes, the file system crashes in a stable state. No half written blocks anywhere, or files written but the inode table not updated, or whatever else Murphy's Law may run to. If the system stops, the worst that happens is that your last write may be lost. Which given that you just crashed, is not too bad a deal. And there's none of this tedious rebuilding the filesystem at boot time.

R4 does something like this aleady, but without kernel support, it's a lot harder. This may explain why R4 is getting a rep for high CPU usage.

When this settles down a bit it's going to be way cool.
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MrApples · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 511

my dmesg is giving me this:

piffle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 98

Jesus, the give-each-release-a-cutesy-name joke was tired and embarassing after the first week. Get over it, already.