On Wednesday 05 January 2011, 18:26:19 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen
wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, 08:26:45 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 04.01.2011 22:57, schrieb Greg Freemyer:
Remember I volunteered to be part of the Evergreen kernel team if you moved to the 2.6.32 kernel.
Greg, do you know what else (if so) needs to be updated when moving to this kernel?
I'm not Greg, but in my case for 2.6.31, the usual offenders were (IIRC): NetworkManager, WLAN, bluetooth, ...
Sounds like the usual suspects. I don't have any specific knowledge of 11.1 issues with a 2.6.32 kernel.
I see openSUSE:Evergreen:11.1:Test already has a 2.6.32 kernel. Was that branched from Kernel:SLE11-SP1?
If so, I can try to setup a 11.1 test machine today and at least give the kernel a basic boot test with real hardware.
Unfortunately, on my main workstation, where I'm locked into 11.1 because of customer (support) needs, 2.6.31 is the last working kernel - all attempts to get beyond that failed so far: the problem is that my bog standard PS2 keyboard (Cherry G80-3000) will stop responding at a random point until the system is rebooted. It's probably due to races in the input system of the kernel and X, that got fixed on later releases, but who knows. What I know is, that it never happened with .31, but with any of .32, .33, .34. Asking for advice, how to debug this here and on LKML got ignored. Needless to say, that I'm dependent from this system to get real work done.
Once the Kernel:SLE11-SP1 kernel is shown to basically work with opensuse 11.1, do you have the ability to test it on that platform? That is a LTS kernel that suse, redhat, etc. are putting fixes into so it should be more stable than 2.6.31. Especially if your 2.6.32 testing was some time ago.
I tend to build my own kernel from github since I garnish them with a few must haves ;-), in other words: aufs, nvidia and VMware WS drivers, all that evil stuff, you name it.. The good news are: I'm mostly prepared already (I've based my .32 kernel on origin/SLE11-SP1), with the last build at end of October. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/frispete:/kernel-2.6.32/open... I will give it another go. One caveat, this won't happen over the weekend, as I'm behind the schedule in an important project already. Proably at the end of January. If it proves to be stable on my main system, I might throw it into my local diskless test setup, and if that succeeds, there are another 40 diskless systems waiting with hardware spanning from 2004 until about three month ago, that I can test on. If those broke, my life is in danger, though.. (But don't worry, I use safety belts, of course ;-)) Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org