As part of a an effort to streamline developer capacity, the maintainers of gentoo-sources and genpatches have decided to limit past kernel versions to a maximum of 3 years post initial release. Notes: Why should I not run older kernel…
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I added the patch indicated above to gentoo-sources behind the ‘experimental’ flag, for now. This is to remove a 20 year old workaround for newer AMD processors. I expect this to propagate to lower kernels via upstream directly. This will…
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I just added zstd to gentoo-sources which will apply to gentoo-sources kernels >=5.6.4 when the ‘experimental’ use flag is enabled. zstd is described here[1] as “…a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios.…
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Quick note that the Linux kernel 5.6.0 has an iwlwifi bug that will prevent network connectivity. [1] A patch is out but did not make 5.6.0. This patch IS included in gentoo-sources-5.6.0. It will be in a future vanilla-sources 5.6.X…
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Just a quick note that I am walking the patch for CVE-2016-8655 down the gentoo-sources kernels. Yesterday, I released the following kernels with the patch backported: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.8.12-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.36 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.1.36-r1 Updated: 12/08 Also patched: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.45-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.68-r1 Updated 12/09 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.104-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.113-r1 Updated…
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As per upstream developers instructions to Fedora maintainers [1] , kdbus will not be included in any new gentoo-sources genpatches release. Of course, I will revisit when upstream feels it’s ready to be tested in distributions once again. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/663062/
Keeping with the theme of ‘Gentoo is about choice” I’ve added the ability for users to include kdbus into their gentoo-sources kernel. I wanted an easy way for gentoo users to test the patchset while maintaining the default installation…
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Contrary to some articles you may read on the internet, NetFlix is working great on Gentoo. Here’s a snap shot of my system running 3.12.30-gentoo sources and google chrome version 39.0.2171.19_p1. $ equery l google-chrome-beta * Searching for google-chrome-beta…
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I did a minor bump to fix a compile error for the fbcondecor patch. If you don’t use fbcondecor, there is no need to upgrade. That is the only change.
Summary Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources kernel. Team members and arch teams (understandably) are unable to keep up with the 1-2 weekly kernel releases…
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