Year 2022, Round 01.

Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 5 January 2022, 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:

5.15.13-rc1, with 73 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00823.html

5.10.90-rc1, with 48 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00753.html

5.4.170-rc1, with 37 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00708.html

4.19.224-rc1, with 27 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00682.html

4.14.261-rc1, with 19 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00653.html

4.9.296-rc1, with 13 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00623.html

4.4.298-rc1, with 11 patches, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...1.0/00610.html

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5.15.12 has been a good update for me. With earlier 5.15 kernels my netbook's screen was going black uopn resume from suspend. You could ssh into the machine but the screen would not wake up. This was fixed in 5.15.12.

Of the last 3 LTS kernels, 5.4 is the only one that worked flawlessly from the start on all my machines. The issues with 5.10 seemed to be fixed only after many updates, but I am still not quite sure, since I didn't do extensive testing -- I just preferred to use 5.4 most of the time. All the problems were graphics-related. I don't know if it's the Intel guys messing things up, but I miss the quality of the older series TBH.

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I don't know! I see that its been suggested that setting a vga resolution rather than a vesa one might work, but all my machines now use grub.

I think the problem stems from the system probing to see what might work, and coming up with the wrong answer on some machines - at least until the main kernel kicks in. Telling it what to use - once you've discovered what it is - sidesteps the system guessing.

I'm scratching around in the dark a bit here, all I can tell you is what I've discovered using grub.

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Pete

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And rc2 for :
5.15.13 : 72 patches https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/4/107
5.10.90 : 47 patches https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/4/106
5.4.170 : 36 patches https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/4/104

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Thanks for the info. I already tried loading nvidia modules in the initrd, as said in Arch wiki, but it didn't work.

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Not on this box.
As mentioned in post #4117, I was twice thrown back to the prompt (init 3) while streaming video with the 5.15.12 update. That did not happen with 5.15.11, nor has it happened with 5.16-rc7 or -rc8.

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The brand new kernels are coming :-)

Kernel updates 5.15.13, 5.10.90, 5.4.170, 4.19.224, 4.14.261, 4.9.296 and 4.4.298 are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.15.13

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.10.90

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.4.170

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.19.224

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.14.261

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.9.296

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.4.298

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5.15.13 build & running as expected

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Ditto with Nvidia-470.94

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5.15.13 x64 built and running fine on Slackware64-14.2
HTH
john

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Not released yet and not for 15.0 but...

• In 5.16 we will get way better ZSTD performances
• In 5.17 we will hopefully need way less time to build the kernel.

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"25,288 files changed, 178,024 insertions(+), 74,720 deletions(-)"

Quite breathtaking... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YdIfz+L...gmail.com/T/#u

See posts #4121 and #4123, above.

Looking forward to Sunday when 5.16 (hopefully) drops. I use zstd in all my daily backups.