From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M3n61-0006xM-Uk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:12:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 838A1E02A5; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from swip.net (mailfe10.tele2.it [212.247.155.45]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B54EE02A5 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:12:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=qohshNNgshIA:10 a=p-AZ2_DgjxYA:10 a=44BDUlaFJiQkRjciIe5NBw==:17 a=k7deYPntFXblU22KpEQA:9 a=mvLlljpMXVM9R8TiP8s1JsM7G3wA:4 Received: from [131.111.115.220] (account cxu-7bj-8gb@tele2.it [131.111.115.220] verified) by mailfe10.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.13) with ESMTPA id 1070418986 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 10:12:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4A09312E.9010007@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:19:58 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090429) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 613a1958-7e25-4d4d-bc98-4a78e82e8125 X-Archives-Hash: 6c7c80625cd4c12639247ae1ec7519ed Hi, My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere (Still have to upgrade xorg, for example, will do it soon). The oldest piece I haven't touched is the kernel. It is 2.6.24-rc6 vanilla-sources, which were the first mostly working with the laptop... and never touched since. Now I want to ask the list: 1) Does anyone have a recent kernel config for this kind of machine? 2) What are the caveats and pitfalls I should be aware of when upgrading to latest kernel? I confess that reading CHANGELOGs didn't help me too much, quite confusing. Also, I wonder if portage's madwifi now supports the Macbook Pro chipset... I had to use SVN one at the time. thanks, m.