laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Hanno Böck]

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Hello,

I have started a project to create a kernel-patch containing various
laptop-specific things.
Especially it contains acpi, software suspend, supermount and some
hardware compatibility patches.

Our goal is to create a kernel that runs all hardware found in current
laptops.
If you have laptop-specific patches you think that should be in
laptopkernel, contact us or submit them through savannahs patch-tracker.

Full list of patches below, it can be downloaded at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/


laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 contains the following patches:

Patch: acpi-20030523 (www.sf.net/projects/acpi)
The ACPI in current kernels is very outdated. Most laptops won't have
any Powermanagement without the ACPI-Patch and some even won't boot.

Patch: swsusp 19-27 (www.sf.net/projects/swsusp)
Software Suspend makes hibernation possible in linux, which is a very
important feature for laptops.

Patch: agpgart from 2.4.21-rc2-ac3 (www.kernel.org)
Laptops with the Centrino chipset need this for working agpgart, which
is needed for hardware graphics acceleration (dri).

Patch: drm modules from 2.4.21-rc2-ac3 (www.kernel.org)
This update is needed for proper working dri in XFree 4.3.

Patch: radeonfb from Benjamin Herrenschmidt (rsync -avz
rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel/) Radeon 9000 won't work with radeonfb
found in the current kernel.

Patch: bcm440+bcm5700 driver (from Gentoo-Sources)
Needed for Broadcom Network cards found in many laptops.

Patch: vivicam usb mass storage support (from Lycoris-Kernel)
Needed for Vivicam 355 (working as USB mass storage).

Patch: supermount-1.2.6 (http://supermount-ng.sf.net)
Supermount is a useful feature for desktop-pcs.

Patch: Optimization for pentium3/4 (trivial)
Makes gcc3-optimizations for pentium3/4 possible.
(Note: pentium4-optimizations should only be used with gcc 3.2.3 and
above. If you have an older gcc, please use pentium3.) 

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Re: laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 21:13, Hanno Böck wrote:

Moin Hanno,

> If you have laptop-specific patches you think that should be in
> laptopkernel, contact us or submit them through savannahs patch-tracker.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105308502622064&w=2

ciao, Marc

Re: laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:13:46 +0200
Hanno B <hanno@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have started a project to create a kernel-patch containing various
> laptop-specific things.
> Especially it contains acpi, software suspend, supermount and some
> hardware compatibility patches.

I expected to see also cpufreq patch. Is there a particular reason
it's not been added?  

--
mattia

Re: laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:21:38PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:

 > > I have started a project to create a kernel-patch containing various
 > > laptop-specific things.
 > > Especially it contains acpi, software suspend, supermount and some
 > > hardware compatibility patches.
 > 
 > I expected to see also cpufreq patch. Is there a particular reason
 > it's not been added?  

The 2.4 branch of cpufreq is somewhat out of date.
Someone else may find time to backport all the recent changes
there (especially the powernow-k7 driver), but it won't be me.

		Dave

Re: laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hanno Böck wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have started a project to create a kernel-patch containing various
>laptop-specific things.
>Especially it contains acpi, software suspend, supermount and some
>hardware compatibility patches.
>
>Our goal is to create a kernel that runs all hardware found in current
>laptops.
>If you have laptop-specific patches you think that should be in
>laptopkernel, contact us or submit them through savannahs patch-tracker.
>
>Full list of patches below, it can be downloaded at
>http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/
>  
>
Have you considered http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/tpctlhome.htm for 
thinkpads? There is also an alternative driver called "thinkpad", but I 
only know of it from the debian package, and they don't give the 
project's homepage there.

-- 
Shachar Shemesh
Open Source integration consultant
Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/

Re: laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:13:46PM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Patch: vivicam usb mass storage support (from Lycoris-Kernel)
> Needed for Vivicam 355 (working as USB mass storage).

Have you submitted this patch to me already?  If not, please do.

thanks,

greg k-h