Newer kernels in F13 (and F12)

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:54 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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...

You can get the -14.fc14 build from Koji and just rpm -ivh it.
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