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Kernel 2.6.34.1-blackjack released for Debian/Ubuntu (Blackjack)

Jul 9th

Posted by robert in Linux

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I haven’t been writing on my blog for quite a while and I guess now I should, well actually The Kernel Development just released kernel 2.6.34.1, so I have a good reason for adding a new post :) .

This kernel really stayed in the cooker for some time, as version 2.6.34 was release two months ago. I will take this long period, their idea to make sure that everything works and most bugs and issues are fixed, otherwise I can’t explain the two months delay between releases.

Now to go strait to this release, which is called Blackjack (has nothing to do with the card games :) ), I will just tell you that this kernel has been build a bit differently, doesn’t have BFS anymore, has enabled Dynamic Ticks, patched the kernel with aufs and lzma support for squashfs4 and left out unionfs. The idea with this kernel is that in case you wanna build your own Live CD, based on the installation on your computer, you can do it really easily as aufs and squashfs4 are there and working right. BFS (brain fuck scheduler) was removed as it wasn’t really giving the kernel anything in plus, actually in some cases it even slowed down the overall system and Dynamic Ticks where enabled, because in some cases power management wasn’t working so well without it. In rest the kernel comes as usually, with all the goodies, drivers and custom build. I think this might be the most successful build of mine yet.

The ChangeLog of this new kernel release is a bit too big so I wont put it here, but you can always check it at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34.1.

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Kernel 2.6.34-final is here!

May 19th

Posted by robert in Linux

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After a couple of days of waiting for BFS scheduler patch and rebuilding the patch for ureadahead, kernel 2.6.34-final is here. I know, again, it’s with a certain delay, but some parts are not in my control and it’s not much that I can do about it.

As usual, the same stuff are included in this release like I always do, but now, in this release, I have also added support for a ton of new modules, removed unionfs (sorry, but it’s not much in use) and probably in the future releases I will include also aufs support. Because the list of bug fixes in this kernel is really really long, I wont includ it, like I did in my previouse release, but I can tell you that there was an extensive amount of work done for Intel video drivers, Radeon video drivers and Nouveau video drivers (but only experimental, so good luck with them). There are also a lot of other fixes and add-ons, but like I said, I wont mention them, as they are too many.

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Kernel 2.6.33.3-soultrain released for Debian/Ubuntu (Soultrain)

May 3rd

Posted by robert in Linux

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Well first of all, sorry for this late release, but had some stuff to handle which at that point in time where more important. Kernel 2.6.33.3 was released last week and it comes like always with a bunch of bug fixes, improvements and new stuff added. I’m not gonna go into them, because there are too many, but just form the top of my head I will mention one small fix, which I noticed myself, and that is the thinkpad_acpi modules which didn’t work properly in the older released. By this I mean that enabling/disabling WLAN and Bluetooth didn’t work. You will have them on, but coudn’t switch them off using FN key plus F5 key. This part seems that it was fixed and now in kernel 2.6.33.3 it works like it should. In rest, I can’t tell you much, besides the fact that it works, I didn’t notice any downgrade in performance or anything similar.

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Kernel 2.6.33.2-coolcat released for Debian/Ubuntu (Coolcat)

Apr 7th

Posted by robert in Linux

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A couple of days ago Kernel 2.6.33.2 was released. Due to the Easter holidays, I didn’t have the time to build this kernel, but yesterday evening somehow I get around it and now the packages are ready for use.

There are no major stuff added in this kernel from my side, besides the removal of PAE support which seems it created some problems for some people. This means that this new release will only support 4GB of memory and of course no PAE. I hope it’s not a problem, but I can’t go two ways, or PAE or no PAE and there is also the other option to build two kernels, but I don’t really think it would be a good idea. Not now anyways.

From the kernel development team there are some bug fixes and improvement, and here they are, but if you want more details check the ChangeLog:

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Kernel 2.6.33.1-beetlejuice released for Debian/Ubuntu (Beetlejuice)

Mar 17th

Posted by robert in Linux

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Another day, another kernel, another kernel package. To be damn honest, I can’t keep up with the kernel development team. They are releasing kernels like on a production line. It’s almost impossible for a single person to keep the the releases on time, but I’m trying :)

Anyway, I will keep this short and tell you the main things. For example there is unionfs support, squashfs support, ureadahead support, BFS default scheduler (Brain Fuck Scheduler) and of course a ton of fixes from kernel devel team. Here is a sample of the ChangeLog.

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