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Old 02-08-2020, 04:06 PM   #2161
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Hmmm. I think I'd prefer an old-school jumper. I suppose a jumper could still fail, but I think it's less likely.
If the dictionary had an entry for "safe bet" it would have your post after it I've worked on surplus electronics with old school jumpers that were almost 50 years old and had severe running environments and routine changes and exactly zero have ever failed. The surface area and tension in contact is extremely robust, and easily re-tensioned if one ever did temporarily get hinky.
 
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Old 02-08-2020, 09:55 PM   #2162
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It would be nice to see this backported,

Quote:
Linus Torvalds Just Made A Big Optimization To Help Code Compilation Times On Big CPUs
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 8 February 2020 at 06:38 PM EST.

.......In a simplified test case written by Linus Torvalds, this patch caused the number of context switches on the test program to drop from 11 million to just 1.2 million. The consumed system time was also a tiny fraction of the original time. Reducing the number of context switches is also welcome simply for the fact of how much slower context switching performance has become on the Intel side as a result of the countless security mitigations........
The full story here, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...rallel-Job-Opt

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Old 02-09-2020, 03:21 PM   #2163
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Old 02-09-2020, 09:56 PM   #2164
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5.6-rc1

Release Candidate 1, for the most recent "mainline" development kernel, version 5.6, has been been made available for testing.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.6-rc1.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/00576.html

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Old 02-10-2020, 07:14 AM   #2165
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Year 2020, Round 11

Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Wednesday, 12 February 2020, at approximately 12:00, GMT.

If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available late Tuesday or early Wednesday (depending on your time zone).

There will be 367 patches in the 5.5.3 update, 309 in the 5.4.19 update and 195 in the 4.19.103 update.

The details:

5.5.3, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/01225.html

5.4.19, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/01699.html

4.19.103, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/01836.html

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Old 02-11-2020, 06:50 AM   #2166
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Kernel updates 5.5.3, 5.4.19 and 4.19.103 are now available at,

https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-5.5.3

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-5.4.19

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.19.103

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Old 02-11-2020, 03:07 PM   #2167
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Kernel update 3.16.82 is now available at https://www.kernel.org/

The change log, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-3.16.82

Mr. Hutchings' announcement, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/03616.html
 
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Old 02-12-2020, 10:26 AM   #2168
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Whoops, Linux 5.5 Missed Some "Critical" Intel Graphics Driver Patches
The complete story can be found here, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...issed-Graphics
 
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Old 02-13-2020, 09:44 AM   #2169
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Year 2020, Round 12

Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Saturday afternoon, 15 February 2020, at approximately 15:00, GMT.

If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available late Friday or early Saturday (depending on your time zone).

There will be 120 patches in the 5.5.4 update, 96 in 5.4.20, 52 in 4.19.104, 173 in 4.14.171, 116 in 4.9.214 and, finally, 91 patches in the 4.4.214 update.

The details:

5.5.4, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/06221.html

5.4.20, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/06133.html

4.19.104, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/06155.html

4.14.171, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/06482.html

4.9.214, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/05958.html

4.4.214, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.1/06613.html

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Old 02-13-2020, 10:16 AM   #2170
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That's a bummer about 5.5 missing the intel patches. I had read somewhere that this might happen. Hopefully 5.6 will sort out things on my laptop with it's intel GPU.
 
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Old 02-13-2020, 01:13 PM   #2171
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Considering dumping my Intel gpu laptop cause of this. Quite a shame really.
 
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Old 02-13-2020, 06:28 PM   #2172
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The complete story can be found here, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...issed-Graphics
Hopefully since it was missing critical patches that will hopefully get incorporated into 5.5, hopefully they'll then be backported to 5.4 so Intel users can function properly again.
 
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Old 02-14-2020, 04:13 PM   #2173
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Kernel updates 5.5.4, 5.4.20, 4.19.104, 4.14.171, 4.9.214 and 4.4.214 are now available at,

https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-5.5.4

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-5.4.20

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.19.104

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.14.171

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.9.214

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-4.4.214


The 32-bit version of Dave's Unofficial Slackbuilt Kernel update for the 4.4.y series can be found at, https://dusk.idlemoor.tk

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Old 02-16-2020, 04:04 PM   #2174
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5.6-rc2

Release Candidate 2, for the most recent "mainline" development kernel, version 5.6, has been been made available for testing.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.6-rc2.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/00240.html
 
Old 02-17-2020, 04:13 AM   #2175
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I just updated to 5.4.20, nothing to write home about...
Then i reminded my self of that helper script i wrote a while back ago for exactly that, updating the rest of the system following an kernel update...

here goes:
kernel-update.sh
Code:
#!/bin/sh
V="0.1-alpha"
echo -ne ".\n.\n.\n."
echo "   BOOT UPDATER-"$V
echo "========================================"
echo "adjusting boot to upgraded kernel"
echo "NOTE: this is just a helper, ensure that all the files are"
echo "properly configured beforehand!"
echo "========================================"
for X in /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig /sbin/mkinitrd
  do
  if [[ -x $X ]]
    then
    echo "found [$X]"
    else
    echo "[$X] not found, make sure it is installed."
    echo "-Fatal error, exiting."
    exit 2
  fi
done

rk=$(uname -r)
echo "And we seem to be running on $rk kernel"
echo "========================================"

#loop over the symlinks in /boot/
for k in /boot/vmlinuz*
do
  #echo $k; file -b $k
  if file -b $k | grep -q "symbolic link"
    then echo "we have detected an symlink, skippin the symlink"
  fi
  if file -b $k | grep -q "Linux kernel"
    then echo "we have detected an kernel:"
    s=${k#*-}
    v=${s#*-}
    t=${s%-*}
    echo "it is an " $t "version" $v
    if [ "X"$t == "Xgeneric" ]
      then
      echo "does the -generic we're just detected need some maintainence:"
      #check if initrd is needed!
      for i in /boot/initrd-$v*
      do
        if ( file -b $i | grep -q "data" )
          then
            echo "found apparently matching initrd, skipping further action!"
          else
            #check if mkinitrd has our kernel entry
            for kv in $(grep "KERNEL_VERSION=" /etc/mkinitrd.conf | grep -v "uname" | sed "s/KERNEL_VERSION=//" | sed 's/"//g')
              do
              if [ "X"$kv == "X"$v ] && [ "X"$kv != "X" ]
                then
                echo "initrd seems to be configured already"
                else
                echo "editing /etc/mkinitrd.conf!"
                #do it!
                oldline='KERNEL_VERSION="'$kv'"'
                newline='KERNEL_VERSION="'$v'"'
                echo "["$oldline"]-->["$newline"]"
                sed -i'.backup' "s/$oldline/$newline/" /etc/mkinitrd.conf
                grep $newline /etc/mkinitrd.conf
              fi
            done
            #we have appropriate mkintrd.conf now on
            #proceed to make a initrd for the orphan -generic kernel
            /sbin/mkinitrd -F
          fi
      done
    fi
    #not an -generic, no further action needed
  fi
  #not a krenel, but a symlink, no action needed
done
#letting grup ovedo the config file now:

/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
what to note:
this is for grub users who use an generic kernel and have the /etc/mkinitrd script already edited and set up to the liking

example /etc/initrd.conf:
Code:
# mkinitrd.conf.sample
# See "man mkinitrd.conf" for details on the syntax of this file
#
SOURCE_TREE="/boot/initrd-tree"
CLEAR_TREE="1"
#KERNEL_VERSION="$(uname -r)"
KERNEL_VERSION="5.4.20"
OUTPUT_IMAGE="/boot/initrd-${KERNEL_VERSION}.gz"
#KEYMAP="us"
MODULE_LIST="ext4:usbhid:hid_generic:xhci-hcd"
#LUKSDEV="/dev/sda2"
#LUKSTRIM="/dev/sda2" # verify support with 'hdparm -I $dev | grep TRIM'
#LUKSKEY="LABEL=TRAVELSTICK:/keys/alienbob.luks"
ROOTDEV="/dev/sda3"
ROOTFS="ext4"
#RESUMEDEV="/dev/sda2"
#RAID="0"
#LVM="0"
UDEV="1"
MODCONF="1"
#MICROCODE_ARCH="/boot/intel-ucode.cpio"
#WAIT="1"
this script could potentially take care of further stuff - like checking of the proper modules loaded for the used root but that would really push the line of an initial ALPHA release

Use with caution; i'd like feedback if this goes any further in your (anyone's) hands, okay?

(i set mine in /usr/local/sbin/)

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