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I'm doing gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r4 stable as i write this. |
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It has many bugfixes and improvements, off the top of my head: |
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* Niagara stability greatly improved |
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* Improved alsa driver for snd-sun-cs4231 (specially for SBUS machines) |
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* atyfb should properly handle blade 100/150 again, even with gcc4 |
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* Lots of alignment fixes |
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* E450 wouldn't boot with newer kernels |
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* Heavy-load NFS oops |
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Caveats: |
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Users of Qlogic ISP2xxx FC-AL based machines (most notably Blade 1000, |
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2000, Fire 280R) shouldn't use any kernel >2.6.17 just yet until |
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genkernel is fixed to handle firmware loading in initramfs. On the tech |
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side this involves patching a newer busybox with the gentoo bits and |
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adding the firmware loading mdev patch for it (we don't use udev in |
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initramfs - otherwise it would be easier). |
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We are shipping this kernel stable anyway since we never recommended |
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using genkernel for building kernels so this is a new step that will be |
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required for those machines anyway. |
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I'll be looking into getting the genkernel bits rolling in the next |
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couple of days time willing. |
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Thanks for your attention. |
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Gustavo Zacarias |
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Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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