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

Michael S. Zick
2009-06-04T13:56:19Z

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.

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.