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* [gentoo-kernel] [ANNOUNCE] genkernel 3.5.0.0 release
@ 2016-02-06 22:43 Robin H. Johnson
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2016-02-06 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev, gentoo-kernel

Hi all,

This is a quick announcement of the early testing of the genkernel-3.5.0.0
release.

The 3.5.0.x series should NOT be considered as stable candidates. As
such, I've also removed ALL keywords from 3.5.0.0.

Further 3.5.0.x releases will land other major changes hopefully, including
updating the included tools.

The 3.5.1.x series will hopefully be the next stable candidate series.

3.5.0.0:
- It turns out the generic+per-arch config was previously merging
  fragments in the wrong order. Generic settings were overriding
  per-arch, instead of the opposite. Furthermore, because of this, many arches
  had a kernel config that had a high chance of being unbootable, if it even
  compiled.
- Many options that included debugging in the generated kernel configs are now
  disabled. This returns behavior to the older static kernel configs that had
  these debug options disabled. See these commits for further info:
  247626b6d8b30eb3ed13cb23226c149169607c5e
  945a877a0277befb1fa21281e61ae138af19d356
  333a300e9f40996750a2622c634b0ca5a04469ab

The following architectures are presently SUPPORTED for automatic kernel
configuration:
- alpha
- ppc
- ppc64
- x86
- x86_64

The following architectures are presently UNSUPPORTED for automatic kernel
configuration (but may have static configs):
- arm
- ia64
- mips
- parisc
- parisc64
- s390
- sparc
- sparc64
- um

Arch Teams: If you want to get automatic kernel config support, please review
arch/*/arch-config from a supported architectures, and provide a good
hardware-agnostic version for your arch.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead, Foundation Trustee
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP   : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85


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