[gentoo-sparc] READ, IT's IMPORTANT: gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 going stable

[gentoo-sparc] READ, IT's IMPORTANT: gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 going stable

[Gustavo Zacarias]

I'm doing gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 stable as i write this.
It has many bugfixes and improvements, off the top of my head:

* Niagara stability greatly improved
* Improved alsa driver for snd-sun-cs4231 (specially for SBUS machines)
* atyfb should properly handle blade 100/150 again, even with gcc4
* Lots of alignment fixes
* E450 wouldn't boot with newer kernels
* Heavy-load NFS oops

Caveats:
Users of Qlogic ISP2xxx FC-AL based machines (most notably Blade 1000, 
2000, Fire 280R) shouldn't use any kernel >2.6.17 just yet until 
genkernel is fixed to handle firmware loading in initramfs. On the tech 
side this involves patching a newer busybox with the gentoo bits and 
adding the firmware loading mdev patch for it (we don't use udev in 
initramfs - otherwise it would be easier).
We are shipping this kernel stable anyway since we never recommended 
using genkernel for building kernels so this is a new step that will be 
required for those machines anyway.
I'll be looking into getting the genkernel bits rolling in the next 
couple of days time willing.
Thanks for your attention.

-- 
Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] READ, IT's IMPORTANT: gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 going stable

[Bráulio Oliveira]

hello,

I work with a Sun Blade 1000 with a Qlogic 2100 and 2200. I never
could user any kernel > 2.6.17. I didn't understand the way you said
of how to do that without using genkernel (my case). Could you explain
me more or there is any tutorial about it?

Thank you,
Bráulio

On 4/3/07, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> I'm doing gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 stable as i write this.
> It has many bugfixes and improvements, off the top of my head:
>
> * Niagara stability greatly improved
> * Improved alsa driver for snd-sun-cs4231 (specially for SBUS machines)
> * atyfb should properly handle blade 100/150 again, even with gcc4
> * Lots of alignment fixes
> * E450 wouldn't boot with newer kernels
> * Heavy-load NFS oops
>
> Caveats:
> Users of Qlogic ISP2xxx FC-AL based machines (most notably Blade 1000,
> 2000, Fire 280R) shouldn't use any kernel >2.6.17 just yet until
> genkernel is fixed to handle firmware loading in initramfs. On the tech
> side this involves patching a newer busybox with the gentoo bits and
> adding the firmware loading mdev patch for it (we don't use udev in
> initramfs - otherwise it would be easier).
> We are shipping this kernel stable anyway since we never recommended
> using genkernel for building kernels so this is a new step that will be
> required for those machines anyway.
> I'll be looking into getting the genkernel bits rolling in the next
> couple of days time willing.
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> --
> Gustavo Zacarias
> Gentoo/SPARC monkey
> --
> gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>