2.6.10-nitro4: The Kernel Formerly Known As Hercules

rmh3093 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

I think that the use variables would be a good idea... they dont have to be added to the make.conf if u do something like 'export USE="want-mm"'

but anyway.... this patch that allows cflags to be used... does that mean prior kernels never used cflags from the make.conf file before and what sort of cflags are people using on their kernels, my whole system is built with

-O3 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fomit-frame-pointer

and its stable and I use reiser4 also and have had no problems, if my kernel was that same config i bet i would feel the nitro
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Archangel1: define "goes berserk". I'm running it right now and have been for a while. Try redownloading the patches/ebuild if you're having issues with patching.

rmh3093: no kernel will ever use the cflags from make.conf. This patch just allows you to set your own under kernel hacking.
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rmh3093 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject:

hey i was just wondering how you all go about configuring your kernels, because I disable everything basically and then build everything I know i use into the kernel, and if anything seems like it wants to run as a module after that i switch to a module, and I dont really ever run in to build problems with random drivers I dont use
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rmh3093 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

well thats what i meant basically, this is a new ability..... has anyone had any success with them here?
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charlieg · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

Anybody compared this to nitro3? For me, nitro3 has been really good. Is there any reason to upgrade?
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

charlieg: You should consider switching on the grounds that I fixed a lot of errors from nitro3 in both nitro4 and nitro4-mm (bunch of ide-related stuff). I'm not sure if it will directly affect you, but better safe than sorry.

rmh3093: this isn't actually a new ability; it's been in nitro since nitro first started (AFAIK). When I used to play with it, I remember putting in the most extreme flags I could think of just to see what would happen. As it turns out, the kernel is pretty durable. I couldn't tell the difference between the kernel with crazy cflags and the one with normal ones. So I stopped.
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rmh3093 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject:

sounds like something else to give me hours to play with
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Archangel1: did you try redownloading the patch? I'm glad that it worked without the mm patch, but I'm a bit concerned; if it doesn't work for you, then is everyone having problems? Since nobody else has posted this I'm assuming no, but I'd appreciate it if you could try redownloading both patches.
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Tiger683 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject:

I would say that for example using sse for floating-point math can bring a LOT in prformance, but many think math flags are the more crazy

Woll0r · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject:

It fails to compile

Teh Penguin D00d · n00b Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Tampa, FL

You guys didn't think you could pull off another Nitro release without hearing from me; did you? ;-)

I documented the entire build process, after the ebuild download/digest/merge.

One thing to note...when I did get booted, uname -r output "2.6.10-ck"...not nitro. Even though my symlink is pointing to the proper location. I don't know it's a mistake on my part, or on yours; but...here goes nothing...and yes; it's so verbose I even left the parts where I made typo's in...

Tiger683 · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

My advice would be to use the initial release of the day (nitro4).

Does anyone know if regparm kills alsa driver?

John5788 · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

ahem, it says im running 2.6.10-ck instead of 2.6.10-nitro4? did someone forget to rename it or something, or am i just retarded?

John5788 · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

yes indeed someone did not change something in -cks makefile

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Yeah, I've been aware of the lack of name (forgot it when I redid the mm split; the mm version has had it

) for a while but I had to run out and do some errands. Fixed the smbfs thing (it already was fixed in the mm version despite the fact that mm is supposed to be more unstable...) and the name and reuploaded.
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tariq.firoz · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 7

hmm.... am going to try now ...

Tariq

alsa 1.0.8-rc1 not there, still not able to get my 915 mobo's soundard up using the default kernel :cry:

monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

I'm getting the same problem with -nitro4 as I am with -cko3, a kernel panic cannot mount root device after a lot of spam about a MediaSeek DriveComplete error or something along those lines (I don't know how to copy the exact error). -cko1 works and I think it has -ac1 or -ac2, and -ac7 from ac-sources crashes with the error. I think it may have to do with my hard drive having a host-protected area, and after tinkering with the partition I need to add hda=stroke in order to boot, but it boots fine, and with that line in knoppix my partition (reiserfs) fsck's fine.

Anyone have ideas on how to fix it? I'd rather not have to worry about backing out -ac patches every time I want to use a newer custom kernel.

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

monkey89: are you using nitro4 or nitro4-mm? Try using the other one.
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

Agh...you're right! I'm fixing it as we speak, so you don't need to post it anywhere.

EDIT: fixed. Try it now.
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monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

Hrm...

Well, I tried resizing my reiserfs partition in Knoppix and it resulted in the -mm booting, unfortunately it also hosed a lot of my data. Thankfully, I keep critical files on a separate ext3 partition, and I was able to copy off some important files from the reiserfs root partition.

I'm back in Windows for now, as much as I can't stand it. In a few weeks I'll have a week off, and I'll reinstall linux then (if not earlier). I'll probably use ext3 and a more stable kernel as well, because I'm sick of crashing, as nice as being semi-experimental is.

EricHsu · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:07 am Post subject:

I'm experiencing something weird:

If the system is under some kind of heavy load and the swap is in use, the system will hang on "Deactivating swap..." while reboot or shutdown. Then I have to press the "reboot" button (Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't work...)

Is this only me? I'm using the 2.6.9-nitro4 now...
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discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

EricHsu: I can't say that I've been experiencing the same problem; did you try running the hdparm script? Because I've noted some issues with that recently which may be related (hdparm takes over the processor, won't die)
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