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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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FWIW: The 6.7-rc1 kernel has been built and installed.
The latest Nvidia "new features" driver-545.29.02, built without error and is working as it should. Ditto VirtualBox.
No problems... yet, but it's early.
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-12-2023 at 08:38 PM.
I am starting to think 6.7 is going to be this years LTS kernel. I just checked the calendar and if they do 7 release candidates then stable would hit on December 31.
Just booted slack 15.0 with 6.7.0-rc1 on a MSI B550 Tomahawk with 5800X3D Ryzen and an old R9 280X on amdgpu.
All's good sofar, and everything works fine.
Apparently someone managed to cram YET another general-purpose file system in 6.7.
No luck building the tools for it though, after downloading and installing liburcu (reqirement) from sbo,
the building process stops after "cargo" (whatever that is) downloaded something huge, and then complains
about clap 4.0.32 something. I believe rust is involved here, so not too surprising I guess.
Now performance tests and gaming
EDIT:
Pulled down and installed rust-1.73.0. Had to abandon first try since it ate all space on the root partition.
After a lvm exercise I had better luck: The compile and install (to /usr/local) takes up an amazing 20G.
After that, the install of bcachefs-tools (also /usr/local) worked just fine.
Now let's find some old drives and test this thing
Last edited by rogan; 11-15-2023 at 02:15 AM.
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The 6.6 kernel release has been designated, LTS.
More later. Internet service in this area has gone down and I'm using my phone.
Edit in: Here we go, https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-15-2023 at 01:49 PM.
I am starting to think 6.7 is going to be this years LTS kernel. I just checked the calendar and if they do 7 release candidates then stable would hit on December 31.
At The Open Source Summit Europe, Jonathan Corbett, Linux developer and executive editor at LWN disclosed that the LTS period for the Linux kernel is being brought down to two years, from the previous six years period.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2023, Round 58
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Friday, 17 November 2023, at approximately 19:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Thursday (depending on your time zone).
Kernel updates 6.6.2, 6.5.12, 6.1.63, 5.15.139, 5.10.201, 5.4.261, 4.19.299, and 4.14.330, are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/
The change logs,
Side note:
I would never risk qualifying the excellent work done by the AMD team in the kernel as a "hilarious bug".
And I use amd_pstate since kernel 6.2 without a hitch
I've been testing various aspects of the linux kernel almost daily for 20+ years now.
I also use amd_pstate on 6.1.x, used it on 6.6.1, use it on 6.7.0-rc1 and rc2
they all work. But not on 6.6.2, trying to find out why. acpi_cpufreq works ok.
Yes it was a HILARIOUS bug because everything went veeerry slowly already when
the kernel was booting.
If you want a qualified point on the "exellent work" done by AMD engineers I recommend https://www.youtube.com/@renerebe/videos (not that you'd watch anything there).
I've been testing various aspects of the linux kernel almost daily for 20+ years now.
I also use amd_pstate on 6.1.x, used it on 6.6.1, use it on 6.7.0-rc1 and rc2
they all work. But not on 6.6.2, trying to find out why. acpi_cpufreq works ok.
Yes it was a HILARIOUS bug because everything went veeerry slowly already when
the kernel was booting.
Erf, sorry
I missed that part
Let's hope your bug report will be fixed soon ;-)
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The new LTS kernel has been added to /testing!
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Tue Nov 21 21:15:30 UTC 2023
We have fresh 6.6 kernels in /testing! You may notice that on the 32-bit side
we have done away with the -smp labeled kernel packages, but it's actually the
other kernels that were retired -- the non-SMP, non-PAE ones. If you were
previously using kernel-generic-smp or kernel-huge-smp, you'll need to make
some adjustments to your bootloader setup to load kernel-generic or kernel-huge
instead. About the only non-obsolete CPUs that may have an issue with this are
the first generation Pentium M chips, which supported PAE but unfortunately did
not advertise this in the CPU flags. But these will support PAE if the kernel
option "forcepae" is appended at boot time. Enjoy! :-)
.......
testing/packages/kernel-generic-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/kernel-headers-6.6.2-x86-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/kernel-huge-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/kernel-modules-6.6.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
testing/packages/kernel-source-6.6.2-noarch-1.txz: Added.
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