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On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 12:37:00AM +0000, Matthew Marlowe wrote: |
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> > Hi all - |
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> > To start preparing for 2004.2 in July, releng is opening up Feature |
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> > Requests that the community would like to see included in 2004.2. The |
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> > last day that we are accepting requests is Friday, May 7th at which |
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> > point releng will hold a meeting and decide which requests are |
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> > feasible for both the alloted time and workload. |
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> The biggest issues I've had with current and prior gentoo releases is |
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> the kernel. I've configured a couple dozen dell boxes of different |
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> models over the last 6 months using 1.4, 2004.0, and 2004.1, and |
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> invariably one or more of the following occurs: |
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> - smp kernel locks up completely during hardware detection. |
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That's nasty. Did you report to the hotplug/kernel people? |
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Hardware detection is hard for all systems. If it's not |
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USB/PCI/Firewire, it is _very_ hard. |
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> - basic gentoo kernel runs, but doesn't always autodetect raid or network drivers |
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> - forced migration to lvm2, because the kernel is configured in 2004.0 for lvm2 |
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lvm1 is dead, please migrate as no one is supporting that anymore. |
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> - 1-3 processors are idle during system installs because of various smp/apic issues |
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With a 2.6 kernel you should not have this problem. You did try this |
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with the 2.6 kernel, right? |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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