Newer kernels in F13 (and F12)

[Bill Davidsen]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 18:33 +0200, Vedran Miletić wrote:
>> 2010/5/29 Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com>:
>>> If anyone's interested, I've kicked off a scratch build of 2.6.34-11
>>> against dist-f13.  Just started, but you'll be able to find it at
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2217307 when it's
>>> done.
>> Thanks, it works very nice. It has same performance regression I
>> observed with F14 kernel (about 300 FPS less with glxgears), but works
>> in general (no hang) and has no rendering bugs.
>>
>> In case anyone cares, this is on Dell 1545 with Radeon HD 4330.
> 
> If I'm reading the changelogs right, I believe any 2.6.34 build prior to
> 2.6.34-14 actually has *older* drm code than F13 kernels do, because F13
> kernels got a backport of drm-next (drm-core-next.patch) while F14
> kernels prior to that date don't. So you may want to try 2.6.34-14 as
> well to check if it still works with that...

Just checked with yum, "-11" seems to be it unless you build it yourself:
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64                     2.6.33.3-79.fc13                     @fedora
kernel.x86_64                     2.6.33.3-85.fc13                     @fedora
kernel.x86_64                     2.6.33.4-95.fc13                     @updates
kernel.x86_64                     2.6.34-11.fc13                       installed
Available Packages
kernel.x86_64                     2.6.34-11.fc14                       rawhide

I'm not adverse to doing that, but not on a holiday weekend...

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