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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,152
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2024, Round 20
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Saturday, 13 April 2024, at approximately 10:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Friday (depending on your time zone).
The details:
6.8.6-rc1, with 143 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/05454.html
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,152
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2024, Round 21
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 17 April 2024, at approximately 14:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).
The details:
6.8.7-rc1, with 172 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/10576.html
This 5.15.155 kernel has issues here on my machine, looks like ata drivers went a bit over the top.
What happened is that on cold boot, one of my older wd disks went off and on again with lots of errors in dmesg and it's a 1st time I've seen it happen.
Reverting to 5.15.153, which was last known good kernel here, apparently fixed the issue. Did a fsck.ext4 and the drive's fine.
Anyways, waiting for the issue to surface again, but I'm pretty sure it's a kernel ata subsystem problem.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,152
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2024, Round 22
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 25 April 2024, at approximately 21:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Wednesday (depending on your time zone).
The details:
6.8.8-rc1, with 158 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.2/09743.html
Revert "ASoC: ti: Convert Pandora ASoC to GPIO descriptors"
This reverts commit 0f4048e1a0c6e9d3d31ce5b684600fd137cebfca which is
commit 319e6ac143b9e9048e527ab9dd2aabb8fdf3d60f upstream.
It breaks the 6.1.y build, so needs to be reverted.
Quote:
Only users of the 6.1 kernel series that had build problems with 6.1.88 need to upgrade.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,152
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2024, Round 23
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 2 May 2024, at approximately 10:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Wednesday (depending on your time zone).
The details:
6.8.9-rc1, with 228 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.3/07543.html
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