__DEPRECATED__ [Was: beyond-sources]

[Tiger683]

DEPRECATED, new release here:2.6.16-beyond2


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DISCLAIMER: I'm tired of these long disclaimers. So:
If you inted to bug gentoo devs about -beyond, keep in mind:
i know where you live! Short: don't do it
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Beyond Sources
From the makers of -archck, and -nitro. iphitus and Tiger683

That single patchset has arrived, -beyond. Beyond will have both, a stable (ArchCK/CKO like) branch, and an unstable (nitro like) branch available via git very soon.

The beyond stable tree is a patchset based on the CK patchset. It aims to include a variety of popular features and updates that have not yet made it to the vanilla kernel, while remaining relatively stable. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the most important part of beyond stable tree, as it provides the great interactivity and responsiveness improvements that it is noted for.

VMWare users need to put these two files into /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/modules/source, but backup the original ones first:
vmmon.tar
vmnet.tar

If you use wget to download files from our server, use the "--user-agent=WHATEVER" as command line option
at the _end_ of the command! example: "wget http://someaddres/somefile --user-agent=MyFunkyUserAgent"

HOMEPAGE

FILES:

PATCH

EBUILD
MANIFEST
DIGEST

GIT REPOSITORY (stable branch)


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About unstable branch:
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available HERE

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Cheers,

iphitus and tiger683

[_sys/sid]

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Portage 2.1_pre7-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-beyond1 i686)

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iBook [beyond-sources] # uname -a
Linux iBook 2.6.16-beyond1 #1 SMP Sun Apr 2 08:41:10 CEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz GNU/Linux

Tnks

[protex]

Giving it a try now.

I'm kind of excited to move away from Gentoo-Sources =o.

[Cinder6]

I know you probably hate this questions, but how does this compare against Nitro in terms of speed? I'm assuming it's more stable. Would I regret upgrading from 2.6.15-nitro3?

[nbvcxz]

alive and kickin'
compiled with no problem, working as fine as old nitro

[sedorox]

Hey.. good job.. All hardware working here.. and I do have klive on startup as per the website. Good luck and hopefully this will be just as good... On the speed note.. I don't know how people test it and whatnot.. but it seems fine to me!

[Koala Kid]

iphitus, what ever happened to archck-sources ? I really liked this kernel. Why have you stopped working on it ?

[Tiger683]

for anyone missing archck: no need to, stable branch of beyond is all in hands of iphitus,
I am only responsible for the unstable branch and the bigger part of support in gentoo forums.

Unstable seed tarball will come sometime this week along with release tools (ebuild + eclass)
or (in case of non-gentoo users) install howto.
It will always be based entirely on stable (release-)branch, so should still be more stable than nitro was

cheers

[brot]

downloaded and compiled, just to test out what you'll be working on tiger.

Maybe some previous archck users will help testing out new features in the unstable branch. Anyways, hooray for the new sources

now rebooting (with kexec) to see if it works


Big thanks for both of you, really a great piece of software.

edit: everything works *hooray*
edit2: except vmware

[Tiger683]

edit2: except vmware

Well, one of the patches in my queue
is to *properly* fix this issue in-kernel
_without_ having to remove the memsplit option.

I will commit the fix into beyond-dev tonight,
if it's ok with iphitus, then it gets into stable too
(together with the suspend2 update, which also fixes
the libata pata problem we have already experienced in the past)

cheers

PS: if anyone misses the staircase sysctl tunables tell me,
otherwise it gets dropped totally. Oh, and don't forget to
give a _good_ reason for not dropping it (compared to nitro).

[eeek]

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wget http://beyond-sources.generation.no/gentoo/2.6.16-beyond1/beyond-sources-2.6.16-r1.ebuild
--15:00:22--  http://beyond-sources.generation.no/gentoo/2.6.16-beyond1/beyond-sources-2.6.16-r1.ebuild
           => `beyond-sources-2.6.16-r1.ebuild'
Resolving beyond-sources.generation.no... 195.18.226.60
Connecting to beyond-sources.generation.no|195.18.226.60|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden

Keep up the good work

[Tiger683]

If you use wget to download these from generation.no, use the --user-agent=WHATEVER as command line option.
This host is pretty paranoid on security, so (batch-)downloads with wget's (empty?) useragent are not allowed.

Sorry for inconvenience.

T

PS: updated announcement.
PS2: thx for pointing this out

[eeek]

Cool beens!

In a pinch you can also get the euild andwhat not (at least from konqueror) by simply saving the file to your users home directory. The host seems to be very particular about that one, it didn't let me save to any other location and still have a usable file.

[Tiger683]

by simply saving the file to your users home directory. The host seems to be very particular about that one, it didn't let me save to any other location and still have a usable file.

Not the host... You are not running as root, and this is a GOOD habit
I hope you like the sources

[Isaiah]

Here's to iphitus, tiger683, and the new beyond-sources

[sedorox]

Regarding the VMWare Front, if you check out the homepage (listed in the first post) it gives instructions (!!!dirty fix but works!!!) on how to get vmware working:

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Patches and fixes
VMware
In vmware-config.pl find:

                         . 'not have the same address space size as your running ' 
                     . 'kernel.' . "\n\n", 0); 
        } 
       return ''; 
      } 
    } 

and change to:

                     . 'not have the same address space size as your running ' 
                     . 'kernel.' . "\n\n", 0); 
        } 
 #      return ''; 
      } 
    }

I have tried, and can confirm that vmware works fine with this commented out. So untill vmware actually fixes the issue for the mem split, this is a workaround. XP runs fine for me under latest VMWare

[protex]

Works wonderfully, don't notice much of a speed increase over Gentoo-Sources though, that could be just me.

[eeek]

Ok so yeah. I accept that nvidia's a royal pain to get working even with 'official' sources. I had nitro-sources installed before hand (worked prity good btw). I noticed a small glitch that may or may not having anything to do with the beyoned sources. For some reason nvidia insits/demands to continue to install to wrong place.

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Updating module dependencies for 2.6.15-nitro3

The odd part is that this is while booted into Beyond Sources. So far everything else seems to work like a champ. Definatly gave this old clunker a bit of a pep.

It may not have anything to do with the new set of patches. Something definatly isn't right. (Snicker-Yeah Nvidia). Very annoying, not a 'show stopper' per se but anoying.
I'll poke at it to see if I can figure out what might be the issue.

[morbid]

Will iphitus be providing occasional CKS releases for beyond? His last server release was 2.6.15-archcks7.

[iphitus]

Will iphitus be providing occasional CKS releases for beyond? His last server release was 2.6.15-archcks7.

I'll do it occasionally. Maybe one this weekend.

to those ArchCK users who may be concerned. Don't be, beyond stable will continue to take the patch of ArchCK. If you looked closely at the last release, you might have noticed it was very similar to archck1, with only minor changes and a few additions.

James

[no idea]

Ok so yeah. I accept that nvidia's a royal pain to get working even with 'official' sources. I had nitro-sources installed before hand (worked prity good btw). I noticed a small glitch that may or may not having anything to do with the beyoned sources. For some reason nvidia insits/demands to continue to install to wrong place.

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Updating module dependencies for 2.6.15-nitro3

The odd part is that this is while booted into Beyond Sources. So far everything else seems to work like a champ. Definatly gave this old clunker a bit of a pep.

Is your /usr/linux symlink pointing to the right kernel?

[carpman]

Hello, ok itake it is same install method as nitro:

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GENTOO:
# nano /etc/make.conf
<set PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage", in make.conf, unless already set>
# wget http://no.oldos.org/files/2.6.16-rc5-no2/no-sources-2.6.16_rc5-r2.ebuild
# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/no-sources
# mv no-sources-2.6.16_rc5-r2.ebuild /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/no-sources
# ebuild /usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/no-sources/no-sources-2.6.16_rc5-r2.ebuild digest
<ALL users running stable x86 do the following step>
# echo sys-kernel/no-sources ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
Then emerge the beast:
# emerge no-sources 

Also do i have to use the custome ebuilds as did with nitro

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madwifi-tools-9999.ebuild
madwifi-driver-9999.ebuild

cheers

[Tiger683]

About installation:
Yea, but ofcourse you don't use no-sources as name..... :/

About madwifi: someone who uses tell us if it works with portage version,
I don't know.

EDIT: eek: make sure you /usr/src/linux symlink points to the beyond-sources kernel directory.

If i ndoubt, just do

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rm /usr/src/linux && ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-beyond1 /usr/src/linux

But easier is to emerge the sources with USE="symlink" in the first place....

[Phlogiston]

About installation:
Yea, but ofcourse you don't use no-sources as name..... :/

About madwifi: someone who uses tell us if it works with portage version,
I don't know.

latest portage version works fine with latest nitro... will try beyond sources with the hope that sata is finally fixed!

[mbar]

is undervolt patch in beyond?