The Latest Kernel Release.

cwizardone · 02-18-2020, 09:18 PM

Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Thursday, 20 February 2020, at approximately 19:00, GMT.

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

There will be 80 patches in the 5.5.5 update, 66 in 5.4.21 and 38 patches in the 4.19.105 update.

The details:

5.5.5, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/02473.html

5.4.21, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/02408.html

4.19.105, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/02392.html

tramtrist · 02-18-2020, 09:23 PM

As seen in 5.5.5

Quote:

Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/i915/pmu: Correct the rc6 offset upon enabling

Good news for Intel GPU users ?

cwizardone · 02-19-2020, 05:10 PM

Kernel updates 5.5.5, 5.4.21 and 4.19.105, are now available at,

https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-5.5.5

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-5.4.21

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.19.105

cwizardone · 02-19-2020, 05:24 PM

Quote:

VirtualBox 6.1.4 (released February 19 2020)

Fixes,

Quote:

Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images

The full change log and a download link are available at, https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

cwizardone · 02-20-2020, 02:04 PM

Audio problems with the 5.4.21 kernel.
While all the audio controls/keys appear to work, no sound is reaching the speakers or headphones. After looking, again, at this morning's (or last night's, depending on your time zone) change log, I rebooted and loaded the previous kernel, 5.4.20, and the audio returned to normal.

On this particular motherboard the audio is, "Realtek ACL 887-VD2 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC"

dgrames · 02-20-2020, 03:16 PM

My audio works ok, both speaker and blue tooth headset
Running current, Realtek 887 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
Maybe something with alsa, I am using pulse audio

Don

TheRealGrogan · 02-20-2020, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Audio problems with the 5.4.21 kernel.
While all the audio controls/keys appear to work, no sound is reaching the speakers or headphones.

Have you tried deleting the asound.state file (/var/lib/alsa/asound.state I think?) Sometimes kernel changes invalidate that data.

cwizardone · 02-21-2020, 05:15 AM

Year 2020, Round 14

Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Sunday morning, 23 February 2020, at approximately 07:00, GMT.

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

There will be 399 patches in the 5.5.6 update, 344 in 5.4.22 and 191 in the 4.19.106 update.

The details:

5.5.6, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/05965.html

5.4.22, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/06260.html

4.19.106, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/06508.html

garpu · 02-21-2020, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Audio problems with the 5.4.21 kernel.
While all the audio controls/keys appear to work, no sound is reaching the speakers or headphones. After looking, again, at this morning's (or last night's, depending on your time zone) change log, I rebooted and loaded the previous kernel, 5.4.20, and the audio returned to normal.

On this particular motherboard the audio is, "Realtek ACL 887-VD2 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC"

Was this one of the config changes? That is, does the kernel module exist, or is it needing to be built now?

TheRealGrogan · 02-21-2020, 02:07 PM

It would be built in to the Realtek support in the HD Audio driver (i.e. not a separate module enabled by the user)

config-generic-5.4.21.x64 slackware-current kernel config file

Code:

#
# HD-Audio
#
CONFIG_SND_HDA=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL_DETECT_DMIC is not set
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP_MODE=0
CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132_DSP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=m
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
# end of HD-Audio

cwizardone · 02-23-2020, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

......Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release Sunday morning, 23 February 2020, at approximately 07:00, GMT.........

Mark your calendars.

It is quite rare to see "them" miss their mark, but at the moment they are nine hours passed their self-imposed deadline. Over the last hour new release candidates have been made available for testing, so it might be later today or, perhaps, tomorrow before we see any new kernel updates.

GazL · 02-23-2020, 12:23 PM

I believe Linus' weekly Sunday RC's are pretty much standard practice, and you can almost set your watch by them, but Greg's stable kernels are far more ad-hoc. Like you say, they're more often early than late, but it's not unheard of.

There'll likely be another along by Wednesday anyway.

cwizardone · 02-23-2020, 01:27 PM

@Gazl,
Yes, right on the money.

The third round of release candidates for each of the three updates scheduled for this morning, have been made available for testing.

cwizardone · 02-23-2020, 07:11 PM

5.6-rc3

Release Candidate 3, 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-rc3.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...2.2/08977.html

3rensho · 02-24-2020, 02:01 AM

5.4.22 et al. have been released