Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support]

Michael S. Zick
2009-06-04T14:59:09Z

On Thu June 4 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> On Tue June 2 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > This is almost certainly the last -rc, and I debated even doing it. But
> > rather than just do 2.6.30, I decided that I'd be better off doing a last
> > -rc8 and then a real release probably this weekend.
> >
> > This has mostly driver and arch updates, with perhaps the intel drm/kms
> > and network driver changes standing out, but there's powerpc, blackfin and
> > arm updates too. Admittedly, the two biggest parts of the powerpc update
> > are a revert and a defconfig update.
> >
> > A lot of small stuff, fixing a few regressions (and at least one bugzilla
> > entry going back to 2.6.24). The small stuff does matter. Please test.
> >
> > Linus
> >
>
> Today's first 2.6.30-rc8 build for VIA NetBooks is posted.
> Details at:
> http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=7034#p7034
>
> - - summary - -
>
> This is the kernel.org repository tag: 2.6.30-rc8 codebase ***without*** local patches;
> Using the same configuration as the record holding (-09149), variable speed kernel.
>

Well, that one isn't anything to brag about"

top - 09:45:44 up 1:44, 2 users, load average: 1.46, 1.48, 1.47
Tasks: 116 total, 1 running, 115 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 30.3%us, 8.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 60.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.9%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 446720k total, 419160k used, 27560k free, 26352k buffers
Swap: 2199324k total, 0k used, 2199324k free, 214908k cached
- - - -
3208 mszick 20 0 156m 8752 7424 S 19.4 2.0 16:21.69 pulseaudio
3392 mszick 20 0 311m 44m 23m S 10.2 10.1 11:38.47 vlc
3937 root 20 0 2448 1188 920 R 3.7 0.3 3:18.88 top
49 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 2.8 0.0 2:55.46 hd-audio0
3009 root 20 0 222m 24m 7372 S 0.9 5.5 1:14.42 Xorg
3798 root 20 0 8500 3048 2456 S 0.9 0.7 1:08.91 sshd
1 root 20 0 3084 1888 564 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.58 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd

Testing the -09155 now (-09154 + local patches).

Mike
> The -09149 announcement is at:
> http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=7002#p7002
> (Note: that build had local patches.)
>
> I have also re-posted the record holding (-09143lk), fixed speed build, see above links.

> mike