The Latest Kernel Release.

elcore · 04-08-2022, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

Linux 5.15.33 + NVidia 510.60.02 + VMWare Workstation 16 Pro 16.2.3 build-19376536 running fine on Slackware64 15.0 + Multilib

Also works fine on clean slackware64 without any of these things installed.
And I think whenever the free Workstation Player works fine, the pro version will work fine too.
Based on same thing with different license, no? Why specify pro, do you have shared key for slackware users to test?

kjhambrick · 04-08-2022, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elcore

Also works fine on clean slackware64 without any of these things installed.
And I think whenever the free Workstation Player works fine, the pro version will work fine too.
Based on same thing with different license, no? Why specify pro, do you have shared key for slackware users to test?

elcore --

I don't have a sharable key and I didn't know that VMWare Workstation Player and Pro are then same thing but that makes sense

-- kjh

elcore · 04-08-2022, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

elcore --

I don't have a sharable key and I didn't know that VMWare Workstation Player and Pro are then same thing but that makes sense

-- kjh

It's not the exact same thing, workstation includes a player which is free for home user.
Workstation is for business, and not many of us here are able to test it because it's expensive.
Installer and release build-id are the same, so it's mostly the same thing but it costs nothing to test a vmware player.
It's all kinda offtopic here, since it's not part of kernel.

cwizardone · 04-10-2022, 07:36 PM

5.18-rc2
Release Candidate 2, for the 5.18 "mainline" development kernel has been been made available for testing.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux....18-rc2.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/02284.html

Quote:

...........But at least it's not looking particularly odd, and we have fixes all over.
Drivers is the bulk of it, and there's a little bit of everything here, although the AMD GPU driver fixes are perhaps the most noticeable. But there's also networking, scsi, rdma, block, you name it........

3rensho · 04-12-2022, 02:18 AM

Kernel 4.9.310 was just released

cwizardone · 04-12-2022, 06:03 AM

Four days late, but here it is,
4.9.310
The tarball, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...4.9.310.tar.xz
The change log, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.9.310

cwizardone · 04-12-2022, 06:09 AM

Year 2022, Round 22.

Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 14 April 2022, at approximately 06:00, 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:

5.17.3-rc1, with 343 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/04898.html

5.16.20-rc1, with 285 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/04669.html

Quote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 03:42:56 EST
----------------------
Note, this will be the LAST 5.16.y kernel to be released. Please move
to the 5.17.y tree at this time.
----------------------

5.15.34-rc1, with 277 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/04362.html

5.10.111-rc1, with 171 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/04206.html

cwizardone · 04-12-2022, 01:28 PM

A couple of second release candidates for the Round 22 kernel updates.

5.15.34-rc2, with 277 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/06251.html

5.10.111-rc2, with 170 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/06250.html

cwizardone · 04-13-2022, 12:43 PM

Kernel update 5.17.3 is now available at, https://www.kernel.org/

The change log, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-5.17.3

cwizardone · 04-13-2022, 01:11 PM

Kernel update 5.16.20 [EOL] is now available at, https://www.kernel.org/
The change log, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.16.20

Quote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 13 2022 - 14:56:23 EST
----------------------------
Note, this is the LAST 5.16.y kernel release. It is now end-of-life.

Please move to the 5.17.y branch at this point in time.
----------------------------

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/07664.html

cwizardone · 04-13-2022, 02:05 PM

Kernel updates 5.15.34 and 5.10.111 are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.15.34

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-5.10.111

twy · 04-13-2022, 11:13 PM

On slackware64-14.2, I upgraded the kernel from 5.15.30, which ran fine, to 5.15.33 (I skipped .31 and .32). I upgraded because 5.15.33 looked like it fixes significant potential bugs. Performance seemed more sluggish on 5.15.33. I was beginning to upgrade to 5.15.34 by extracting the tarball, and then I started to get messages (dmesg) like shown in this post:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=752880

The problem has to do with the "clocksource". The ChangeLog-5.15.33 shows that some changes were made to "clocksource"-related drivers. I think they broke something on my hardware, which is an Intel Xeon X3450 (Lynnfield) on Intel 3420 chipset (Asus P7F-E motherboard). So, my system is old, 2009 era hardware.

I don't think 5.15.34 reverts or changes any of the clocksource-related stuff. So, for now, I'm going back to 5.15.30.

If anyone understands this clocksource problem, please explain more. If you have also had this problem, maybe post what hardware you were running. I wonder if this is just a problem on older hardware, or newer too?

My messages looked like this:

Code:

Apr 13 19:15:16 xeon kernel: [352278.634969] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU6: hpet wd-wd read-back delay of 70819ns
Apr 13 19:15:16 xeon kernel: [352278.634988] clocksource: wd-tsc-wd read-back delay of 124527ns, clock-skew test skipped!
Apr 14 09:35:40 xeon kernel: [403903.180493] clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU5: hpet wd-wd read-back delay of 65511ns
Apr 14 09:35:40 xeon kernel: [403903.180511] clocksource: wd-tsc-wd read-back delay of 124387ns, clock-skew test skipped!
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.000000] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1910969940391419 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.000000] clocksource: hpet: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 133484882848 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.000003] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x26708897689, max_idle_ns: 440795285815 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.124135] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1911260446275000 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.177119] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    0.190752] clocksource: acpi_pm: mask: 0xffffff max_cycles: 0xffffff, max_idle_ns: 2085701024 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    1.240213] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2666.768 MHz
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    1.240289] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x26709d83c25, max_idle_ns: 440795325533 ns
Apr 14 09:48:48 xeon kernel: [    1.240520] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.000000] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1910969940391419 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.000000] clocksource: hpet: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 133484882848 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.000003] clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x267082191c7, max_idle_ns: 440795251772 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.125135] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 1911260446275000 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.178119] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    0.191690] clocksource: acpi_pm: mask: 0xffffff max_cycles: 0xffffff, max_idle_ns: 2085701024 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    1.241262] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2666.769 MHz
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    1.241331] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x26709e3c765, max_idle_ns: 440795294326 ns
Apr 14 10:17:55 xeon kernel: [    1.241572] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc

kjhambrick · 04-14-2022, 06:59 AM

Linux 5.15.34 + NVidia 510.60.02 is running fine on Slackware64 15.0 + Multilib

P.S. I also built and installed kernel-firmware-20220413_8a2d811-noarch-1 using Pat's standard SlackBuild.

cwizardone · 04-14-2022, 08:24 AM

Year 2022, Round 23.

Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Saturday, 16 April 2022, at approximately 11:00, 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:

5.4.189-rc1, with 475 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/09173.html

4.19.238-rc1, with 338 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...4.1/08847.html

brianL · 04-14-2022, 10:37 AM

I know nothing about kernel development & when I read that release candidates need over a thousand patches I wonder if the developers are the same.