new year, new test kernel.

[Dave Jones]

This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/

The major change since the last test release
should be the fixing of the problem a lot of
folks (especially radeon users) saw on logout
of Gnome/KDE.

		Dave

Changelog since last testing release..

* Fri Dec 31 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Drop 4g/4g patch completely.

* Tue Dec 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Drop bogus ethernet slab cache.

* Thu Dec 23 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Fix bio error propagation.
- Clear ebp on sysenter return.
- Extra debugging info on OOM kill.
- exit() race fix.
- Fix refcounting order in sd/sr, fixing cable pulls on USB storage.
- IGMP source filter fixes.
- Fix ext2/3 leak on umount.
- fix missing wakeup in ipc/sem
- Fix another tux corner case bug.

* Wed Dec 22 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Add another ipod to the unusual usb devices list. (#142779)

* Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Fix two silly bugs in the AGP posting fixes.

* Thu Dec 16 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- Better version of the PCI Posting fixes for agpgart.
- Add missing cache flush to the AGP code.

* Sun Dec 12 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
- fix false ECHILD result from wait* with zombie group leader.

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>  repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>  early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/ 
Similar FC2 RPMs can be found in ../FC2/

		Dave

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  Similar FC2 RPMs can be found in ../FC2/
>  		Dave 
Cool; thanks! I'll test these both on Monday, and see what I get.


And I guess I'll be telling a lot more people that they need to buy x86_64
systems if they want to run programs that allocate insane amounts of
memory....


-- 
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Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:59 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>   > This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>   > repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>   > early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/
>  
>  Similar FC2 RPMs can be found in ../FC2/ 
How about running createrepo for the FC3 directory?  Has old-style yum
headers but not new repodata so can't be used with FC3 yum.

Thanks,
Phil

[Philip Balister]

I have a Dell 600m laptop. When I try the test kernel, it detects my
ipw2100 card, but can't find the firmware. I am thinking I need to
update something else so I can hotplug firmware during boot?

This laptop has an ATI radeon chipset. There is a patch I have used that
lets me use S3 suspend and resume. This kernel doesn't reset the ATI
video card so video doesn't resume. I have lost track of boot options
for this and x.org fixes. Anyone have any advice on how to get this
working again? Can I do it without rebuilding the kernel?

I am using FC2 with the test kernel.

Philip


On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:59, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>   > This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>   > repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>   > early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/
>  
>  Similar FC2 RPMs can be found in ../FC2/
>  
>  		Dave

[Bill Nottingham]

Philip Balister (philip(a)balister.org) said: 
>  I have a Dell 600m laptop. When I try the test kernel, it detects my
>  ipw2100 card, but can't find the firmware. I am thinking I need to
>  update something else so I can hotplug firmware during boot? 
What directory is the firmware in?

Bill

[Philip Balister]

My firmware.agent has these lines ...

# directory of the firmware files
FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

I guess this isn't mounted when the driver tries to load the firmware?

Philip

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:39, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Philip Balister (philip(a)balister.org) said: 
>  > I have a Dell 600m laptop. When I try the test kernel, it detects my
>  > ipw2100 card, but can't find the firmware. I am thinking I need to
>  > update something else so I can hotplug firmware during boot?
>  
>  What directory is the firmware in?
>  
>  Bill

[Bill Nottingham]

Philip Balister (philip(a)balister.org) said: 
>  My firmware.agent has these lines ...
>  
>  # directory of the firmware files
>  FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
>  
>  I guess this isn't mounted when the driver tries to load the firmware? 
Depending on when the driver is loaded, and whether or not you
have a separate /usr, maybe. In FC3, this is all moved to /lib/firmware
for this reason.

Bill

[Emmanuel Seyman]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:43:26PM -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
>  
>  # directory of the firmware files
>  FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware 
Put them in /lib/firmware instead.

Emmanuel

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Seg, 2005-01-03 às 15:43 -0500, Philip Balister escreveu:
>  My firmware.agent has these lines ...
>  # directory of the firmware files
>  FIRMWARE_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
>  I guess this isn't mounted when the driver tries to load the firmware? 
Please read the fedora release notes - it's explained there.

[Tom Browder]

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Dave Jones
>  Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:56 PM
>  To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
>  Subject: new year, new test kernel. 
Tried it--doesn't fix kernel lock problem.  I wish I could tell you more
about the problem.

-Tom

[Jurgen Kramer]

Would it be possible to include the HP (Compaq) TC1100 ACPI WMI and
asorted patches in future versions? These are needed to get the WACOM
pen, Wifi and Bluetooth working.

That would be really great.

Jurgen

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 13:55 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>  repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>  early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/
>  
>  The major change since the last test release
>  should be the fixing of the problem a lot of
>  folks (especially radeon users) saw on logout
>  of Gnome/KDE.
>  
>  		Dave
>  
>  Changelog since last testing release..
>  
>  * Fri Dec 31 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Drop 4g/4g patch completely.
>  
>  * Tue Dec 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Drop bogus ethernet slab cache.
>  
>  * Thu Dec 23 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Fix bio error propagation.
>  - Clear ebp on sysenter return.
>  - Extra debugging info on OOM kill.
>  - exit() race fix.
>  - Fix refcounting order in sd/sr, fixing cable pulls on USB storage.
>  - IGMP source filter fixes.
>  - Fix ext2/3 leak on umount.
>  - fix missing wakeup in ipc/sem
>  - Fix another tux corner case bug.
>  
>  * Wed Dec 22 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Add another ipod to the unusual usb devices list. (#142779)
>  
>  * Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Fix two silly bugs in the AGP posting fixes.
>  
>  * Thu Dec 16 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Better version of the PCI Posting fixes for agpgart.
>  - Add missing cache flush to the AGP code.
>  
>  * Sun Dec 12 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - fix false ECHILD result from wait* with zombie group leader.
>   
--

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:36:50AM +0100, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>  Would it be possible to include the HP (Compaq) TC1100 ACPI WMI and
>  asorted patches in future versions? These are needed to get the WACOM
>  pen, Wifi and Bluetooth working.
>  
>  That would be really great. 
I've no idea what state those patches are in, but a better solution
is to convince the authors of them to get their stuff merged upstream.
If they're already in 2.6.10, we'll pick them up eventually.

FC-2 & FC-3 are now at 245 patches on top of 2.6.9-ac,
with devel being 76 patches on top of 2.6.10. The latter, I
want to actually *reduce* by the time that FC4 ships.
(At a guess 2.6.11 will likely be out in time for it,
 so we're shooting to get as much as possible pushed upstream).

FC-2/FC-3 were around 40 or so patches at time of release.
I'd like to get to near that target, if not better again.

		Dave

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  FC-2 & FC-3 are now at 245 patches on top of 2.6.9-ac,
>  with devel being 76 patches on top of 2.6.10. 
Can you give a figure on how many of them are bug fixes, and how many
feature additions?

Being naive, I guess getting the bug fixes in upstream shouldn't be
any problem in most cases?


Best regards,
Daniel

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[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:03:29AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>  On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > FC-2 & FC-3 are now at 245 patches on top of 2.6.9-ac,
>  > with devel being 76 patches on top of 2.6.10.
>  
>  Can you give a figure on how many of them are bug fixes, and how many
>  feature additions? 
The vast majority are backported fixes. Here's the list of
feature patches in the devel tree..

- Restricted /dev/mem
- Execshield
- Additions to SCSI whitelist for USB card readers
- 'crash' debug driver
- Signed modules
- ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers
- Xen
- flexmmap for x86-64.

The bulk of the remainder are bugfixes, and a handful
of 'distro' patches that wont go upstream.

>  Being naive, I guess getting the bug fixes in upstream shouldn't
> be
>  any problem in most cases? 
most of them actually came /from/ upstream 8)

		Dave

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 07:09:21PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:03:29AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>   > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>   > > FC-2 & FC-3 are now at 245 patches on top of 2.6.9-ac,
>   > > with devel being 76 patches on top of 2.6.10.
>   > 
>   > Can you give a figure on how many of them are bug fixes, and how many
>   > feature additions?
>  
>  The vast majority are backported fixes. Here's the list of
>  feature patches in the devel tree..
>  
>  - Restricted /dev/mem
>  - Execshield
>  - Additions to SCSI whitelist for USB card readers
>  - 'crash' debug driver
>  - Signed modules
>  - ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers
>  - Xen
>  - flexmmap for x86-64.
>  
>  The bulk of the remainder are bugfixes, and a handful
>  of 'distro' patches that wont go upstream. 
Thanks for that. So just to be sure I understand this correctly:
only ~8 patches for features, over 200 bug fixes, and some "distro"
patches? What kind of patches are those "distro" patches?


Best regards,
Daniel

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[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:59:54AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:

>  > The bulk of the remainder are bugfixes, and a handful
>  > of 'distro' patches that wont go upstream.
>  
>  Thanks for that. So just to be sure I understand this correctly:
>  only ~8 patches for features 
Some of those features are split up into multiple patches.
Ie, Execshield is 3-4, modsign is ~6, etc..
This makes upstream merging easier. Some of the smaller bits
of exec-shield already found their way upstream. It makes it
so much easier to rebase when you can just drop a patch instead
of having to edit a diff/hand merge rejects.

>  over 200 bug fixes, and some "distro"
>  patches? What kind of patches are those "distro" patches? 
Things like the make oldconfig_nonint target, things fiddling
with default gcc options (-Os by default, and tune for P4 on the 686 kernel)
Some debugging patches (like linux-2.6.3-printopen.patch
which prints files that are opened, useful for generating
file lists for readahead), things that alter some upstream
decisions (like changing some printk's to panic's and vice versa)
WARN_ON -> BUG_ON). Upstream kernel will allow you to sometimes limp
along after something catastrophic happens, Fedora kernel
will panic as soon as possible to prevent possible data corruption.
Removal of export's of a bunch of things like sys_call_table
which only cause pain, and prevent a bunch of rootkits from running.
(Whilst there are rootkits that can still patch the system without
 this exported, it raises the bar slightly).
Finally, we deprecate a bunch of stuff that will ultimately go
away upstream.

		Dave

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:46 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:36:50AM +0100, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>   > Would it be possible to include the HP (Compaq) TC1100 ACPI WMI and
>   > asorted patches in future versions? These are needed to get the WACOM
>   > pen, Wifi and Bluetooth working.
>   > 
>   > That would be really great.
>  
>  I've no idea what state those patches are in, but a better solution
>  is to convince the authors of them to get their stuff merged upstream.
>  If they're already in 2.6.10, we'll pick them up eventually. 
I am not sure if these patches are actively maintained. There not in
2.6.10. Maybe someone on the ACPI ML knows what the status is.

>  FC-2 & FC-3 are now at 245 patches on top of 2.6.9-ac,
>  with devel being 76 patches on top of 2.6.10. The latter, I
>  want to actually *reduce* by the time that FC4 ships.
>  (At a guess 2.6.11 will likely be out in time for it,
>   so we're shooting to get as much as possible pushed upstream).
>  
>  FC-2/FC-3 were around 40 or so patches at time of release.
>  I'd like to get to near that target, if not better again.
>  
>  		Dave 
Jurgen

--

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

>  This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>  repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>  early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/ 
I'm unable to use gdb with kernel-2.6.9-1.722_FC3 (the same problem
with kernel-2.6.9-1.1049_FC4 in rawhide)

This works fine if I go back to kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3

Satish

----
(The following session is from rawhide - but the same thing happened with 722_FC3)

[balay@localhost junk]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.1049_FC4 #1 Wed Dec 22 19:15:55 EST 2004 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
[balay@localhost junk]$ gcc -g sizeof.c
[balay@localhost junk]$ gdb a.out
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.61rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db
library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) b 10
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483f4: file sizeof.c, line 10.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/balay/junk/a.out
warning: Child process unexpectedly missing: No child processes

Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.
The program no longer exists.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb)

[Jim Cornette]

Dave Jones wrote:
>  This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>  repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>  early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/
>  
>  The major change since the last test release
>  should be the fixing of the problem a lot of
>  folks (especially radeon users) saw on logout
>  of Gnome/KDE. 
Using a radeon graphics card, the error with a panic when exiting the 
GUI does not occur. There were also problems with random lockups with 
previous kernels and someone reprted a problem where their mouse 
functionality broke and their X server would go back to a login screen. 
I referenced this test kernel for maybe resolving this pecularity with 
the kernel and radeon cards when running the GUI.
Of course, the power-off using acpi is still present with the 2.6.9 
kernel versions.

Jim

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1



>  
>  		Dave
>  
>  Changelog since last testing release..
>  
>  * Fri Dec 31 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  - Drop 4g/4g patch completely.
>   
-- 
Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack.

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:01:46AM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:

>  Using a radeon graphics card, the error with a panic when exiting the
>
>  GUI does not occur. There were also problems with random lockups with 
>  previous kernels and someone reprted a problem where their mouse 
>  functionality broke and their X server would go back to a login screen. 
>  I referenced this test kernel for maybe resolving this pecularity with 
>  the kernel and radeon cards when running the GUI.
>  Of course, the power-off using acpi is still present with the 2.6.9 
>  kernel versions. 
That's likely not going to get fixed until I rebase to 2.6.10-ac.

		Dave

[Féliciano Matias]

Le samedi 01 janvier 2005 à 13:55 -0500, Dave Jones a écrit :
>  This hasn't been pushed out to the testing
>  repo's just yet, but you can pick it up
>  early from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/
>   
Thanks. This fix this bug (component initially set to xorg) :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142685
      - "x11 hang when dri/glx is use on mga G400 card"