From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0012F15852A for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9D332BC018; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (mail.muc.de [193.149.48.3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 564F3E2A0D for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 96339 invoked by uid 3782); 23 Aug 2024 18:41:30 +0200 Received: from muc.de (pd953ac03.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.83.172.3]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:41:29 +0200 Received: (qmail 8664 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Aug 2024 16:41:29 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:41:29 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit? Message-ID: References: <2743932.mvXUDI8C0e@cube> <4591468.LvFx2qVVIh@rogueboard> <899c8f36-f77b-4678-a74c-37c36f174fba@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <899c8f36-f77b-4678-a74c-37c36f174fba@youngman.org.uk> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 90f758b1-6a4f-4a3a-8196-bcae07447600 X-Archives-Hash: e354f8c2fdd7f5c697f3ab9c9dd12055 Hello, Wol. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:42:54 +0100, Wol wrote: > On 22/08/2024 17:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Yes, 6.6.47 has become the new stable Gentoo kernel, and I've now > > updated my old machine, and this worked without problem. This was > > mainly to test that nothing RAID-wise had gone missing in the kernel. > > It hadn't > What version of mdraid? 0.97? or 1.x? The 0.97, I think. The one with the version 0.90 metadata, so that the kernel can assemble the MD things at boot time without an initramfs. > 0.97 is in-kernel, and deprecated - as in "if it ain't broke, don't fix > it. If it is broke, it's not supported". I think there are a fair few > people who depend on it, though, so it tends to get fixed if something > goes wrong. Well, I've been using it for nearly 15 years now, so it seems like somebody is looking after it. > 1.x is assembled in user space, so there are probably races with other > stuff in user space for completion. I run a somewhat messy boot stack, > but iirc my root space is just "rust, mdraid, lvm, root partition", and > it works just fine. But I do run systemd, and I might have had to make > sure there's something in the boot stack waiting for each bit to > complete in order. We've got different ideas on what a boot system should look like. ;-) > My /home stack has dm-integrity between rust and raid, and boy did that > really cause some grief getting that to behave. But that makes sure that > my raid-5 never sees a corrupt read, so I can recover from a damaged > disk as well as a lost disk. Yes, these things always cause grief when they're being installed. And then they run trouble free for many years. > I - allegedly - know about raid :-) , so if you give me a bit more info > I might be able to help. Or I might not ... My root partition is on /dev/md126, in an ext4 file system. Most of my other partitions are in /dev/md127, which I've configured as a volume group containing several partitions. But it's booting now, and I can carry on installing Gentoo, though I'm a bit fed up with the video bug I've mentioned in the other thread. We'll see what comes of that. Have a good weekend! > Cheers, > Wol -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).