stable kernel 2.4.19

taskara · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:51 am Post subject: stable kernel 2.4.19

anyone tried latest stable kernel, 2.4.19 ? (released today 3rd August 2002)

taskara · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:58 am Post subject:

from the changelog:

"2.4.19-rc5 was released as 2.4.19 with no changes."

will "gentoo-sources" be based on this new kernel, and will it need all those little patches ?

Ferdy · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 9:07 am Post subject:

I think I'll use it with my new 1.3b instalation. Then I'll maybe use it in my "stable" Gentoo..... and who knows if one day I put it into my server

Just my 2 cents
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rommel · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:16 pm Post subject:

i emerged it last night adn its running fine....added support for usb2.0 and there were some other minor changes but nothing like the heavily patched gentoo kernels...but seems i always have trouble with them so i use the vanilla

taskara · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 1:21 am Post subject:

yeah, often the vanilla-sources are the way to go

anyone know how long till the gentoo-sources will be released based on 2.4.19 ?

Evangelion · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 7:55 am Post subject:

What version does the Gentoo-kernel use? I forgot *cough*

Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

If you look in the ebuild, you'll find that the gentoo sources are:

2.4.19-pre7-ac2
+ SGI XFS 1.1
+ grsecurity-1.9.4
+ 2.4.19-pre7-low-latency
+ QoS support
+ preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-pre7-ac2-1
+ preempt-stats-rml-2.4.19-pre7-ac3-1
+ some stuff with cryptic names (jp10 looks like?)
+ more cryptic stuff (address-space-4)
+ acpi
+ jiffies-for-i386, mmx-init, p4-xeon, x86-fast-pte, acpi-lowerlatency-3, acpi-pciirq-18, acpi-y2k-1
+ new SiS Athlon chipset support
+ IBM evm 1.0.1
+ some 2.4.18-wolk3.4-rc5 stuff
+ ACPI marked DANGEROUS and JFS support
+ vfat symlink patch, CDDA dma patch from mjc's collection

Quite a mouthfull.
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Evangelion · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 8:23 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 11:19 am Post subject:

currently, the "gentoo-sources" is a heavily patched 2.4.18 kernel.

now that 2.4.19 has been released, hopefully we'll see an update to 2.4.19 for "gentoo-sources" soon..

format c: · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:35 pm Post subject:

I use the 2.4.19 since release and think it's faster than the gentoo-patched. Is there a way to check it out?

taskara · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 10:26 pm Post subject:

you can do a hdparm test on your hdd's

or just time how long it takes to do things. like open mozilla, or something.

Locke · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 3:21 am Post subject:

I snatched the 2.4.19 source from kernel.org and applied the latest XFS patch. Seems to be working well

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

2.4.19 is running fine here plus pre-empt-patch/lm_sensors/Alsa/Nvidia.

USB for mice/keyboards has slightly changed: you need CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y enabled (hid input layer) for your mouse/keyboard to work.

I find it slightly slower than 2.4.18 in hdparm -tT scores and in
LD_DEBUG=statistics konqueror scores as well.

(Tbird 800 KT133 ATA100 disks)

format c: · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 8:08 pm Post subject:

Is my harddrive to slow? hdparm -t -T results always the same after reboot:
vanilla-2.4.19, gentoo-patched-2.4.19 or FreeS/WAN-patched-2.4.18 with debian sid.
128 MB in 0.8 seconds = 160.00 MB/sec
64 MB in 1.59 seconds = 40.25 MB/sec

Sequentious · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject:

Heres what I got, it appears to be more or less on-par i believe (maxtor 60 gig ata100)