2.6.20-nicus1: Gasoline & Frozen Orange Juice

vipernicus · 2.6.20-nicus1: Gasoline & Frozen Orange Juice

Nicus Sources is pretty much my other playground for new patches.

The main goal of this patchset is pretty much to offer the latest features, decrease latencies, decrease overhead, and improve interactivity. The only difference is experimental versions of everything. I boot test each release and run for an extended amount of time.

/* Notes */
New PlugSched was released the other day, so I decided to play around with it. Created tunables for Nicksched and Staircase. Here are my results.

Example of Nicus Tunables:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject:

rmh3093 · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:27 am Post subject:

damn u beat me to it

, i was going to play with that in that next skunk-sources but 2.6.20-mm1 isnt out yet.... what schedulers are included in the new version?
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vipernicus · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:30 am Post subject:

jmajor1111 · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Denver

I'm all about the thinkpad testing mate. any chance I can get the beta

let me know.

Also, did you look at the usb_serial.c maxsize patch I sent off to you? would it make your patch set or should I just suck it up and do it myself

thanks

-J
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dr.bombay · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Los Angeles

vipernicus, I get this build error, and would really appreciate your help on resolving, and thanks for the new kernel

CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_bufs.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_context.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_dma.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_drawable.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_drv.o
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_drv.c: In function 'drm_init':
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_drv.c:304: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_register_driver', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_fops.o
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_fops.c: In function 'drm_stub_open':
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_fops.c:189: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_ioctl.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_irq.o
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_irq.c: In function 'drm_irq_install':
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_irq.c:135: warning: passing argument 2 of 'request_irq' from incompatible pointer type
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_lock.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_memory.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_proc.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.o
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.c:51: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.c: In function 'drm_get_dev':
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.c:216: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_request_regions', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.c:219: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_enable_device', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core/drm_stub.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/work/drm/linux-core] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-nicus1'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
* Portage could not build the DRM modules. If you see an ACCESS DENIED error,
* this could mean that you were using an unsupported kernel build system. All
* 2.4 kernels are supported, but only 2.6 kernels at least as new as 2.6.6
* are supported.

!!! ERROR: x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 4138: Called src_compile
x11-drm-20060608-r1.ebuild, line 94: Called src_compile_os
x11-drm-20060608-r1.ebuild, line 249: Called src_compile_linux
x11-drm-20060608-r1.ebuild, line 273: Called die_error
x11-drm-20060608-r1.ebuild, line 314: Called die

!!! Unable to build DRM modules.
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608-r1/temp/build.log'.
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

That's not a bug it's a feature! We dont want DRM on linux. :evil:

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Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

jmajor1111 · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Denver

While I agree that DRM sucks, it is sadly a key path for Linux to be accepted in the corporate and home user markets. besides

Gentree · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Oh , I thought is was an xorg kernel module to make my screen go blurred whenever I put a CD of my own music into the machine.

If linux can't offer basic functionality like that yet I suppose I'll have to install Vista :lol:

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RobertDavid · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

Nice joke,,, so be aware of building x11-drm, or you can loose the ability of playing your own made mp3s :)

Seriously: I had the same problem with x11-drm, but then read somewhere that they stop maintainig the package and now they maintain only the kernel thread, so just enable DRM and your card in kernel as module. With that DRI works well on my radeon 9600.
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Drm

Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

OK , messing aside.

Outstanding effort 'nicus. Finally I can migrate from the sadly discontinued no-sources.

I now have a kernel with R4 , uguru and sata-sil support as well as all the other tweekables. Nice job.

I'm still hitting one problem that I suspect is not down to nicus directly. I am trying desparately to format /dev/sda16 to ntfs (or anything else for that matter) as a place to clone hda1.

Now I have tried knoppix 5.1.1 , partedmagic 2.1 , and now nicus. All give me the same error when I try to format /dev/sda16 which is a SATA drive running on sata_sil (AN7 mobo).

I get invalid arguement, the kernel wont recogninse sda16. Now the fact that so many varied kernels refuse to see this and sda1-sda15 are fine, I get the impression this is sata_sil maybe being limitted to 0F partitions.

My ide drive has 25 (yep twentyfive) partitions and seems fine, sda1 to sda 15 seem happy.

Any ideas on this?

TIA.

[EDIT] This may even be the underlying SCSI model , I seem to recall some comment on redhat limitting this to 15 for compat with other unices. Is this a somewhat unnecessary restriction of sata using the SCSI model?

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Donman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 117

@ Gentree:
I believe the 15 partition limit is held in the libata code itself, and is a limit in scsi as well.

dr.bombay · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Los Angeles

jonnevers · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: Re: x11-drm

darklegion · Guru Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 468

Setting clock frequency to 250 fails with: (later lines removed)