robertalks.com » i915 http://blog.robertalks.com here I talk Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:14:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Kernel 2.6.34.1-blackjack released for Debian/Ubuntu (Blackjack) http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/07/09/kernel-2-6-34-1-blackjack-released-for-debianubuntu-blackjack/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/07/09/kernel-2-6-34-1-blackjack-released-for-debianubuntu-blackjack/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:13:50 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=979 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.

OK! Enough with the blablabla, lets go directly to the download part (pick a mirror from where you can download this kernel):

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.34.1-blackjack/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.34.1-blackjack/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.34.1-blackjack_2.6.34.1-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package called linux-source-2.6.34.1-blackjack_2.6.34.1-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code with the patches.

I am your father, Luke! (don’t like Start Wars, but they do have some good lines :) )

]]> http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/07/09/kernel-2-6-34-1-blackjack-released-for-debianubuntu-blackjack/feed/ 5 Kernel 2.6.34-final is here! http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/19/kernel-2-6-34-final-is-here/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/19/kernel-2-6-34-final-is-here/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 14:08:21 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=964 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.

P.S.: To rectify a mistake that I did in one of my comments, now I’ve added the rtl8187se module, which it wasn’t included in the previous releases.

To download this kernel please use one of our mirrors:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.34-final/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.34-final/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.34-final_2.6.34-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package call linux-source-2.6.34-final_2.6.33.3-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code.

May the force be with you, Luke :)

]]> http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/19/kernel-2-6-34-final-is-here/feed/ 4 Kernel 2.6.33.3-soultrain released for Debian/Ubuntu (Soultrain) http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/03/kernel-2-6-33-3-soultrain-released-for-debianubuntu-soultrain/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/03/kernel-2-6-33-3-soultrain-released-for-debianubuntu-soultrain/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 12:38:53 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=956 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.

Now lets take a small look at the ChangeLog:

r8169: clean up my printk uglyness
x86/gart: Disable GART explicitly before initialization
KVM: x86: Fix TSS size check for 16-bit tasks
KVM: Increase NR_IOBUS_DEVS limit to 200
KVM: fix the handling of dirty bitmaps to avoid overflows
KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_zap_page() and its calling path
KVM: VMX: Save/restore rflags.vm correctly in real mode
KVM: allow bit 10 to be cleared in MSR_IA32_MC4_CTL
KVM: Don’t spam kernel log when injecting exceptions due to bad cr writes
KVM: SVM: Fix memory leaks that happen when svm_create_vcpu() fails
KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
sched: Use proper type in sched_getaffinity()
ext4: fix async i/o writes beyond 4GB to a sparse file
powerpc: Fix SMP build with disabled CPU hotplugging.
md: deal with merge_bvec_fn in component devices better.
module: fix __module_ref_addr()
lockdep: fix incorrect percpu usage
modules: fix incorrect percpu usage
ACPI: EC: Limit burst to 64 bits
ACPI: EC: Allow multibyte access to EC
xfs: check for more work before sleeping in xfssyncd
xfs: fix locking for inode cache radix tree tag updates
xfs: Non-blocking inode locking in IO completion
perf_events, x86: Implement Intel Westmere/Nehalem-EX support
e1000e: stop cleaning when we reach tx_ring->next_to_use
iwlwifi: fix scan race
iwlwifi: clear all tx queues when firmware ready
USB: cdc-acm: Fix stupid NULL pointer in resume()
USB: cdc-acm: Update to new autopm API
ecryptfs: fix error code for missing xattrs in lower fs
eCryptfs: Decrypt symlink target for stat size
ecryptfs: fix use with tmpfs by removing d_drop from ecryptfs_destroy_inode
ALSA: hda – Add position_fix quirk for Biostar mobo
b43: fall back gracefully to PIO mode after fatal DMA errors
b43: Allow PIO mode to be selected at module load
i2c-i801: Add Intel Cougar Point device IDs
ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
ALSA: hda – enable snoop for Intel Cougar Point
ALSA: hda_intel: ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
IPoIB: Fix TX queue lockup with mixed UD/CM traffic
PCI: kill off pci_register_set_vga_state() symbol export.
pci: Update pci_set_vga_state() to call arch functions
9p: Skip check for mandatory locks when unlocking
ocfs2: Change bg_chain check for ocfs2_validate_gd_parent.
ocfs2: set i_mode on disk during acl operations
quota: Fix possible dq_flags corruption
fix NFS4 handling of mountpoint stat
x86-64, rwsem: Avoid store forwarding hazard in __downgrade_write
x86: Fix breakage of UML from the changes in the rwsem system
x86-64: support native xadd rwsem implementation
x86-64, rwsem: 64-bit xadd rwsem implementation
x86: clean up rwsem type system
x86-32: clean up rwsem inline asm statements
dm ioctl: introduce flag indicating uevent was generated
x86, cacheinfo: Enable L3 CID only on AMD
x86, cacheinfo: Remove NUMA dependency, fix for AMD Fam10h rev D1
x86, cacheinfo: Calculate L3 indices
x86, cacheinfo: Add cache index disable sysfs attrs only to L3 caches
intel-agp: Switch to wbinvd_on_all_cpus
x86, cacheinfo: Fix disabling of L3 cache indices
x86, lib: Add wbinvd smp helpers
Revert “x86: disable IOMMUs on kernel crash”
x86/amd-iommu: enable iommu before attaching devices
x86/amd-iommu: Use helper function to destroy domain
x86/amd-iommu: Pt mode fix for domain_destroy
drm/radeon/kms: add FireMV 2400 PCI ID.
drm/radeon/kms: fix rs600 tlb flush
drm/radeon/kms: fix tv dac conflict resolver
drm/radeon/kms: disable the tv encoder when tv/cv is not in use
drm/radeon/kms: more atom parser fixes (v2)
drm/i915: Add no_lvds entry for the Clientron U800
hwmon: (sht15) Properly handle the case CONFIG_REGULATOR=n
hwmon: (sht15) Fix sht15_calc_temp interpolation function
ALSA: usb – Fix Oops after usb-midi disconnection
ALSA: hda – add a quirk for Clevo M570U laptop
Input: sparse-keymap – free the right keymap on error
Input: wacom – switch mode upon system resume
NFSv4: fix delegated locking
NFSv4: Fall back to ordinary lookup if nfs4_atomic_open() returns EISDIR
sched: Fix sched_getaffinity()
sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length
x86: Fix double enable_IR_x2apic() call on SMP kernel on !SMP boards
x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET comparator
x86: Handle overlapping mptables
x86-32, resume: do a global tlb flush in S4 resume
drm/radeon/kms/combios: verify dac_adj values are valid
drm/radeon/kms: fix washed out image on legacy tv dac
drm/radeon: R300 AD only has one quad pipe.
drm/edid/quirks: Envision EN2028
ARM: 6031/1: fix Thumb-2 decompressor
mac80211: Handle mesh action frames in ieee80211_rx_h_action
iwlwifi: need check for valid qos packet before free
ath9k: fix double calls to ath_radio_enable
CIFS: initialize nbytes at the beginning of CIFSSMBWrite()
cifs: Fix a kernel BUG with remote OS/2 server (try #3)
s390: disable change bit override
libata: disable NCQ on Crucial C300 SSD
pata_via: Add VIA VX900 support
backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl – add five more MacBook variants
ALSA: hda – Add MSI blacklist for Aopen MZ915-M
ALSA: hda – Add ASRock mobo to MSI blacklist
ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB offset for Lenovo Thinkpad models using AD1981
ALSA: mixart: range checking proc file
include/linux/kfifo.h: fix INIT_KFIFO()
readahead: fix NULL filp dereference
raw: fsync method is now required
HID: fix oops in gyration_event()
tty: release_one_tty() forgets to put pids
genirq: Force MSI irq handlers to run with interrupts disabled
WATCHDOG: iTCO_wdt: TCO Watchdog patch for additional Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
WATCHDOG: hpwdt – fix lower timeout limit
sunxvr500: Ignore secondary output PCI devices.
sparc: Fix regset register window handling.
mac80211: tear down all agg queues when restart/reconfig hw
mac80211: move netdev queue enabling to correct spot
mac80211: fix PREQ processing and one small bug
setup correct int pipe type in ar9170_usb_exec_cmd
iwlwifi: range checking issue
iwlwifi: counting number of tfds can be free for 4965
iwlwifi: fix regulatory
Freezer: Fix buggy resume test for tasks frozen with cgroup freezer
x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
libiscsi: Fix recovery slowdown regression
reiserfs: Fix locking BUG during mount failure
sh: Enable the mmu in start_secondary()
sh: Fix FDPIC binary loader
drm: Return ENODEV if the inode mapping changes
drm/radeon/kms: fix pal tv-out support on legacy IGP chips
drm/radeon/kms: don’t print error on -ERESTARTSYS.
drm/radeon/kms: Fix NULL pointer dereference if memory allocation failed in a simple way
drm/radeon/kms: never treat rs4xx as AGP
oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()
fat: fix buffer overflow in vfat_create_shortname()
drm: remove the EDID blob stored in the EDID property when it is disconnected
drm/radeon: add new RS880 pci id

To download this kernel please use one of our mirrors:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.33.3-soultrain/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.33.3-soultrain/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.33.3-soultrain_2.6.33.3-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package call linux-source-2.6.33.3-soultrain_2.6.33.3-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code.

May the force be with you, Luke :)

]]> http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/05/03/kernel-2-6-33-3-soultrain-released-for-debianubuntu-soultrain/feed/ 8 Kernel 2.6.33.2-coolcat released for Debian/Ubuntu (Coolcat) http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/04/07/kernel-2-6-33-2-coolcat-released-for-debianubuntu-coolcat/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/04/07/kernel-2-6-33-2-coolcat-released-for-debianubuntu-coolcat/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:22:16 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=940 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:

pata_via: fix VT6410/6415/6330 detection issue
GFS2: Skip check for mandatory locks when unlocking
classmate-laptop: use a single MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to get correct aliases
x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC
b43: Workaround circular locking in hw-tkip key update callback
Bluetooth: Fix kernel crash on L2CAP stress tests
Bluetooth: Fix potential bad memory access with sysfs files
ahci: use BIOS date in broken_suspend list
quota: Fix warning when a delayed write happens before quota is enabled
quota: manage reserved space when quota is not active [v2]
tcp: Fix tcp_make_synack()
tcp: Fix OOB POLLIN avoidance.
tcp: Fix tcp_mark_head_lost() with packets == 0
skbuff: remove unused dma_head & dma_maps fields
net: Potential null skb->dev dereference
r8169: offical fix for CVE-2009-4537 (overlength frame DMAs)
netlink: fix unaligned access in nla_get_be64()
netfilter: ctnetlink: fix reliable event delivery if message building fails
netlink: fix NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS in netlink_set_err()
NET_DMA: free skbs periodically
ipv6: Don’t drop cache route entry unless timer actually expired.
ipv4: Don’t drop redirected route cache entry unless PTMU actually expired
ipv4: check rt_genid in dst_check
ipsec: Fix bogus bundle flowi
ip_gre: include route header_len in max_headroom calculation
e100: Fix ring parameter change handling regression.
bonding: fix device leak on error in bond_create()
net: add __must_check to sk_add_backlog
net: backlog functions rename
x25: use limited socket backlog
tipc: use limited socket backlog
sctp: use limited socket backlog
llc: use limited socket backlog
udp: use limited socket backlog
tcp: use limited socket backlog
net: add limit for socket backlog
route: Fix caught BUG_ON during rt_secret_rebuild_oneshot()
l2tp: Fix UDP socket reference count bugs in the pppol2tp driver
l2tp: Fix oops in pppol2tp_xmit
sparc64: Add very basic XVR-1000 framebuffer driver.
sparc64: Properly truncate pt_regs framepointer in perf callback.
qlogicpti: Remove slash in QlogicPTI irq name
ide: Fix Promise UDMA33 IDE driver (pdc202xx_old)
Revert “ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)”
icside: bring back ->maskproc method
leds-gpio: fix default state handling on OF platforms
ath9k: Enable IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS flag for ath9k
mac80211: Retry null data frame for power save
ath9k: configure the beacon only if the STA is associated
ath9k: Enable TIM timer interrupt only when needed.
ALSA: ac97: Add IBM ThinkPad R40e to Headphone/Line Jack Sense blacklist
ALSA: ac97: Add Toshiba P500 to ac97 jack sense blacklist
ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for ga-ma770-ud3 board
hwmon: (coretemp) Add missing newline to dev_warn() message
x86, amd: Restrict usage of c1e_idle()
x86: Fix placement of FIX_OHCI1394_BASE
netfilter: xt_recent: fix regression in rules using a zero hit_count
drm/nouveau: report unknown connector state if lid closed
drm/i915: Avoid NULL deref in get_pages() unwind after error.
drm/i915: fix small leak on overlay error path
softlockup: Stop spurious softlockup messages due to overflow
genirq: Prevent oneshot irq thread race
nilfs2: fix hang-up of cleaner after log writer returned with error
cpuset: fix the problem that cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline node
ath9k: fix BUG_ON triggered by PAE frames
PCI: cleanup error return for pcix get and set mmrbc functions
PCI: fix access of PCI_X_CMD by pcix get and set mmrbc functions
PCI: fix return value from pcix_get_max_mmrbc()
fs/partition/msdos: fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector
fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks
if_tunnel.h: add missing ams/byteorder.h include
kfifo: fix KFIFO_INIT in include/linux/kfifo.h
sunrpc: handle allocation errors from __rpc_lookup_create()
SUNRPC: Fix a potential memory leak in auth_gss
iwlwifi: Silence tfds_in_queue message
edac, mce: Filter out invalid values
jme: Protect vlgrp structure by pause RX actions.
jme: Fix VLAN memory leak
wl1251: fix potential crash
usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix removed from an attached hub
USB: option: add support for a new CMOTECH device to usb/serial/option
USB: option: move hardcoded PID to a macro in usb/serial/option
USB: option: fix incorrect manufacturer name in usb/serial/option: MAXON->CMOTECH
USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id
USB: xHCI: re-initialize cmd_completion
USB: qcserial: add new device ids
USB: EHCI: adjust ehci_iso_stream for changes in ehci_qh
USB: EHCI: fix ITD list order
USB: fix usbfs regression
tty: Take a 256 byte padding into account when buffering below sub-page units
tty: Keep the default buffering to sub-page units
nfsd: ensure sockets are closed on error
Revert “sunrpc: move the close processing after do recvfrom method”
Revert “sunrpc: fix peername failed on closed listener”
NFS: Prevent another deadlock in nfs_release_page()
NFS: Avoid a deadlock in nfs_release_page
NFSv4: Don’t ignore the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag in nfs_revalidate_inode()
SCSI: scsi_transport_fc: Fix synchronization issue while deleting vport
doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
tmpfs: cleanup mpol_parse_str()
tmpfs: handle MPOL_LOCAL mount option properly
tmpfs: mpol=bind:0 don’t cause mount error.
tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default
perf probe: Fix probe_point buffer overrun
perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online
perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified
perf: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization
gigaset: correct range checking off by one error
gigaset: fix build failure
gigaset: avoid registering CAPI driver more than once
gigaset: prune use of tty_buffer_request_room
gigaset: correct clearing of at_state strings on RING
ALSA: cmipci: work around invalid PCM pointer
ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB offset for HP laptops using CX20551 (Waikiki)
ALSA: hda – Fix secondary ADC of ALC260 basic model
ALSA: hda – Disable MSI for Nvidia controller
ALSA: hda: Use LPIB and 6stack-dig for eMachines T5212
sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power
perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array
can: fix bfin_can build error after alloc_candev() change
iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
virtio: fix out of range array access
mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes
ath9k: add support for 802.11n bonded out AR2427
ath9k: fix lockdep warning when unloading module
sh: Fix zImage boot using fixed PMB.
sparc64: Make prom entry spinlock NMI safe.
pci: add support for 82576NS serdes to existing SR-IOV quirk
KVM: x86: Add KVM_CAP_X86_ROBUST_SINGLESTEP
V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini()
coredump: suppress uid comparison test if core output files are pipes
tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback
x86/stacktrace: Don’t dereference bad frame pointers
x86_64, cpa: Don’t work hard in preserving kernel 2M mappings when using 4K already
ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
ath5k: fix setup for CAB queue
ath5k: dont use external sleep clock in AP mode
ath5k: fix I/Q calibration (for real)
i2c-i801: Don’t use the block buffer for I2C block writes
i2c-powermac: Be less verbose in the absence of real errors.
Input: i8042 – add ALDI/MEDION netbook E1222 to qurik reset table
Input: alps – add support for the touchpad on Toshiba Tecra A11-11L
timekeeping: Prevent oops when GENERIC_TIME=n
ALSA: hda – Fix input source elements of secondary ADCs on Realtek
ALSA: hda – Sound MSI fallout on a Asus mobo NVIDIA MCP55
tg3: Fix tg3_poll_controller() passing wrong pointer to tg3_interrupt()
mac80211: Fix HT rate control configuration
ARM: Fix decompressor’s kernel size estimation for ROM=y
decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC

To download this kernel please use one of our mirrors:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.33.2-coolcat/

Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.33.2-coolcat/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.33.2-coolcat_2.6.33.2-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package call linux-source-2.6.33.2-coolcat_2.6.33.2-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code.

Good bye and good luck!

]]> http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/04/07/kernel-2-6-33-2-coolcat-released-for-debianubuntu-coolcat/feed/ 12 Kernel 2.6.33.1-beetlejuice released for Debian/Ubuntu (Beetlejuice) http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/03/17/kernel-2-6-33-1-beetlejuice-released-for-debianubuntu-beetlejuice/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2010/03/17/kernel-2-6-33-1-beetlejuice-released-for-debianubuntu-beetlejuice/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:07:11 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=935 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.

x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
sched: Don’t use possibly stale sched_class
sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue()
sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT
KVM: x86 emulator: Check CPL level during privilege instruction emulation
KVM: x86 emulator: Add group9 instruction decoding
KVM: x86 emulator: Forbid modifying CS segment register by mov instruction
KVM: x86 emulator: Add group8 instruction decoding
KVM: VMX: Trap and invalid MWAIT/MONITOR instruction
dm ioctl: only issue uevent on resume if state changed
dm: free dm_io before bio_endio not after
NFS: Fix an allocation-under-spinlock bug
rtc-coh901331: fix braces in resume code
scripts/get_maintainer.pl: fix possible infinite loop
s3cmci: initialize default platform data no_wprotect and no_detect with 1
s3cmci: s3cmci_card_present: Use no_detect to decide whether there is a card detect pin
SUNRPC: Handle EINVAL error returns from the TCP connect operation
sunrpc: remove unnecessary svc_xprt_put
drm/radeon/kms/atom: fix shr/shl ops
drm/ttm: handle OOM in ttm_tt_swapout
drm/i915: Use a dmi quirk to skip a broken SDVO TV output.
USB: unusual_devs: Add support for multiple Option 3G sticks
USB: cp210x: Add 81E8 (Zephyr Bioharness)
USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id
USB: add new ftdi_sio device ids
USB: f_mass_storage: fix crash on bind() error
USB: Move hcd free_dev call into usb_disconnect to fix oops
USB: remove debugging message for uevent constructions
USB: fix crash in uhci_scan_schedule
USB: fix the idProduct value for USB-3.0 root hubs
USB: xhci: Fix finding extended capabilities registers
x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
x86, xen: Disable highmem PTE allocation even when CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y
x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping
ocfs2: Only bug out in direct io write for reflinked extent.
thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access
thinkpad-acpi: fix bluetooth/wwan resume
thinkpad-acpi: make driver events work in NVRAM poll mode
thinkpad-acpi: document HKEY event 3006
thinkpad-acpi: R52 brightness_mode has been confirmed
thinkpad-acpi: fix poll thread auto-start
eeepc-laptop: disable wireless hotplug for 1005PE
mac80211: do not transmit frames on unconfigured 4-addr vlan interfaces
sunxvr500: Additional PCI id for sunxvr500 driver
netfilter: xt_recent: fix false match
netfilter: xt_recent: fix buffer overflow
b43/b43legacy: Wake queues in wireless_core_start
ath5k: use correct packet type when transmitting
ath9k: disable RIFS search for AR91xx based chips
ath9k: fix rate control fallback rate selection
ath9k: fix beacon timer restart after a card reset
ath9k: re-enable ps by default for new single chip families
netdevice.h: check for CONFIG_WLAN instead of CONFIG_WLAN_80211
skbuff: align sk_buff::cb to 64 bit and close some potential holes
scm: Only support SCM_RIGHTS on unix domain sockets.
pata_hpt3x2n: always stretch UltraDMA timing
hwmon: Fix off-by-one kind values
hwmon: (tmp421) Restore missing inputs
hwmon: (tmp421) Fix temperature conversions
gpio: cs5535-gpio: fix input direction
gpiolib: Actually set output state in wm831x_gpio_direction_output()
p54pci: handle dma mapping errors
p54usb: Add the USB ID for Belkin (Accton) FD7050E ver 1010ec
USB: fix I2C API usage in ohci-pnx4008.
USB: serial: sierra driver indat_callback fix
serial: imx: fix NULL dereference Oops when pdata == NULL
tty: Fix the ldisc hangup race
sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2
Driver-Core: devtmpfs – reset inode permissions before unlinking
driver-core: fix race condition in get_device_parent()
ASoC: fix ak4104 register array access
ALSA: hda-intel: Add position_fix quirk for ASUS M2V-MX SE.
ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for a Biostar Microtech board
ALSA: hda: Use LPIB for Dell Latitude 131L
thinkpad-acpi: fix ALSA callback return status
ALSA: USB MIDI support for Access Music VirusTI
ALSA: usb-audio: reduce MIDI packet size to work around broken firmware
ALSA: pcm core – fix fifo_size channels interval check
ALSA: via82xx: add quirk for D1289 motherboard
ALSA: hda: Use 3stack quirk for Toshiba Satellite L40-10Q
tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
perf: Reimplement frequency driven sampling
oprofile/x86: fix msr access to reserved counters
oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()
oprofile/x86: remove node check in AMD IBS initialization
oprofile: remove tracing build dependency
perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()
perf symbols: Check the right return variable
oprofile/x86: fix perfctr nmi reservation for mulitplexing
macintosh/hwmon/ams: Fix device removal sequence
macintosh/therm_adt746x: Fix sysfs attributes lifetime
PM / Hibernate: Fix preallocating of memory
V4L/DVB: v4l: soc_camera: fix bound checking of mbus_fmt[] index
dvb-core: Fix DoS bug in ULE decapsulation code that can be triggered by an invalid Payload Pointer
Staging: mimio: remove the mimio driver
Staging: wlan-ng: Add select WEXT_PRIV to Kconfig to prevent build failure
Staging: Fixed pohmelfs regression because of per-bdi writeback.
Staging: hv: match on DMI values to know if we should run.
Staging: hv: add a pci device table
SCSI: qla1280: Drop host_lock while requesting firmware
clocksource: Fix up a registration/IRQ race in the sh drivers.
x86/PCI: Prevent mmconfig memory corruption
rtc-core: fix memory leak
ath9k: fix keycache leak in split tkip case
drm/i915: give up on 8xx lid status
x86, uv: uv_global_gru_mmr_address() macro fix
vfs: take f_lock on modifying f_mode after open time
V4L/DVB (13991): gspca_mr973010a: Fix cif type 1 cameras not streaming on UHCI controllers
slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien_cache().
readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
mpt2sas: Delete volume before HBA detach.
mac80211: Reset dynamic ps timer in Rx path.
mac80211: quit addba_resp_timer if Tx BA session is torn down
HID: usbhid: introduce timeout for stuck ctrl/out URBs
HID: remove TENX iBuddy from blacklist
airo: fix setting zero length WEP key
security: fix error return path in ima_inode_alloc
PCI hotplug: check ioremap() return value in ibmphp_ebda.c
PCI hotplug: ibmphp: read the length of ebda and map entire ebda region
netlabel: fix export of SELinux categories > 127

So this part is out of the picture, now it comes the download and install part. You can download this kernel from my two mirrors, one is in Canada and the other one is in Czech Republic.

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.33.1-beetlejuice/

Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.33.1-beetlejuice/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how (use –force-all to make sure it will install it, it can happen that on older system will run into an error, for example on Ubuntu 8.04, but with –force-all it will be installed and it will work):

sudo dpkg -i –force-all linux-image-2.6.33.1-beetlejuice_2.6.33.1-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package call linux-source-2.6.33.1-beetlejuice_2.6.33.1-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code.

Good bye and good luck!

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