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fox2mike 05/09/08 10:08:02 |
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Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en migration-to-2.6.xml |
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#98027 - Make the profiles bit clearer, thanks to Thilo Bangert for reporting. Also fixed xml and Micha\uffff's name. |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.19 +51 -25 xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml |
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file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.19&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo |
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plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?rev=1.19&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo |
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diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml.diff?r1=1.18&r2=1.19&cvsroot=gentoo |
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Index: migration-to-2.6.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.18 |
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retrieving revision 1.19 |
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diff -u -r1.18 -r1.19 |
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--- migration-to-2.6.xml 25 Aug 2005 10:59:31 -0000 1.18 |
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+++ migration-to-2.6.xml 8 Sep 2005 10:08:02 -0000 1.19 |
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v 1.18 2005/08/25 10:59:31 neysx Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml,v 1.19 2005/09/08 10:08:02 fox2mike Exp $ --> |
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<guide link="/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml"> |
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@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ |
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2.6, devfs to udev, OSS to ALSA, and LVM to LVM2. |
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</abstract> |
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-<version>0.2.7</version> |
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-<date>2005-08-24</date> |
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+<version>0.2.8</version> |
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+<date>2005-09-08</date> |
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<chapter> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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<li> |
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Scheduler/Interactivity improvements: Linux feels very smooth on desktop |
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systems and copes much better than 2.4 while under load |
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-</li> |
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+ </li> |
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<li> |
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Scalability: Linux now scales much better at both ends - on small embedded |
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devices and also systems with many processors |
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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ |
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<li> |
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Hardware support: Linux now supports many more architectures and hardware |
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devices out-of-the-box than any other operating system. |
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-</li> |
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+ </li> |
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</ul> |
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<p> |
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link="http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html">The Wonderful World Of Linux |
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2.6</uri> which you may be interested to glance over. If you are interested in |
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the more technical details, you can refer to <uri |
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-link="http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt">The |
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-post-halloween document</uri> - but bear in mind that this is somewhat outdated |
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-now. |
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+link="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt">The |
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+post-halloween document</uri> - but do bear in mind that this is somewhat |
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+outdated now. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+</body> |
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+</section> |
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+<section> |
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+<title>Gentoo and 2.6</title> |
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+<body> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+From the 2005.0 release of Gentoo Linux, the default kernel is the latest 2.6 |
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+series kernel. The default profile of the system is picked up from |
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+<path>/etc/make.profiles</path> which on 2005.0 or above would be a symlink to |
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+<path>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0</path> under which various |
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+important settings are taken care of. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<p> |
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+If you're using a 2.4 profile, please change it to one that supports a 2.6 |
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+kernel by doing the following. |
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</p> |
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+<pre caption="Changing your profile"> |
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+# <i>rm -f /etc/make.profile</i> |
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+# <i>ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 /etc/make.profile</i> |
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+</pre> |
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+ |
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</body> |
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</section> |
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<section> |
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<p> |
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In the past, Gentoo has instructed users to use <e>devfs</e> for managing the |
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-/dev directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to allow system |
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-applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel). |
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+<path>/dev</path> directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to |
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+allow system applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel). |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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<e>devfs</e>, whilst a good concept, has some internal problems, and has been |
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-marked obsolete in Linux 2.6. |
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+completely removed from the main stable tree as of 2.6.13. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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<p> |
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The above may not mean much to you, but fear not, the hard working Gentoo |
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developers have put effort into making the migration from devfs very easy. |
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+Please read the <uri link="/doc/en/udev-guide.xml">Gentoo udev Guide</uri> for |
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+more information regarding the same. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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<li> |
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<c>sys-kernel/genkernel</c> (only if you wish to use genkernel as opposed |
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to manual configuration) |
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-</li> |
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+ </li> |
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</ul> |
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<pre caption="Updating all world packages"> |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-As your existing device manager will be mounted at /dev, we cannot access it |
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-directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another location and |
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-access the /dev directory from there. |
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+As your existing device manager will be mounted at <path>/dev</path>, we cannot |
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+access it directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another |
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+location and access the <path>/dev</path> directory from there. |
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</p> |
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<pre caption="Bind-mounting your root partition and listing static devices"> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on /usr/src/linux being a |
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-symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to compile |
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-against). |
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+Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on <path>/usr/src/linux</path> |
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+being a symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to |
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+compile against). |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-We will now update our /usr/src/linux link to point at the kernel sources we |
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-just installed. Continuing our example: |
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+We will now update our <path>/usr/src/linux</path> link to point at the kernel |
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+sources we just installed. Continuing our example: |
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</p> |
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<pre caption="Updating the /usr/src/linux softlink"> |
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<p> |
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If you used the original Serial ATA drivers under Linux 2.4, you probably |
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-observed your SATA devices having names such as <c>/dev/hde</c>. |
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+observed your SATA devices having names such as <path>/dev/hde</path>. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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Linux 2.6 introduces some new SATA drivers (libata) which are based on the SCSI |
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subsystem. As these drivers are based on SCSI, your SATA disks will now show up |
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-as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named <c>/dev/sda</c>. You will |
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-need to update your <c>/etc/fstab</c> file to reflect this, and you will need |
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+as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named <path>/dev/sda</path>. You will |
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+need to update your <path>/etc/fstab</path> file to reflect this, and you will need |
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to bear this in mind when choosing the root/real_root kernel boot parameter |
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later on. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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The developer of bootsplash appears to have lost interest in his project, given |
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-some design problems. However, Gentoo developer <e>Michal Januszewski</e> is |
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+some design problems. However, Gentoo developer <e>MichaÅ Januszewski</e> is |
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developing a successor, <c>gensplash</c>, which in included in the |
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-gentoo-sources-2.6 kernel. You can follow Michal's <uri |
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+gentoo-sources-2.6 kernel. You can follow MichaÅ's <uri |
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link="http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/archive/gensplash-in-5-easy-steps.txt"> |
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Gensplash in 5 easy steps</uri> document in order to familiarize yourself with |
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how gensplash is operated. |
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