2.6.10-nitro4: The Kernel Formerly Known As Hercules

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Evil Dark Archon · Post by **Evil Dark Archon** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:07 am

2.6.10-mm3 now has inotify already patched in, so that's one less patch for the -mm version of nitro.

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:22 am

The next nitro version will be based off 2.6.11-rc1, and I'm going to get started on it as soon as the appropriate patches are released (ac/mm/ck). If mm takes longer than a day or two more than ck to come out, I'll be making a ck only release of nitro. Either way, it won't be until the ck comes out, and I don't think that will be for at least a day.

Evil Dark Archon · Post by **Evil Dark Archon** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:24 am

that'll be good because 2.6.11-rc1 already has quite a few of the patches that are in the current -mm.

cybe · Post by **cybe** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:12 am

Darckness wrote:cybe: are you using the same config as with nitro2? I've had no issues with music skipping/other irritations of that sort. What player do you use?

Unfortunately I can't give you a definitive answer. I might have been using a different config and there might thus have been something that is done differently...

The music skips with all players..

This nitro-2.6.10-nitro2 is very good...time flies and soon I'll be downloading a new nitro release in the hope of that bleeding edge...

thecrazyperson_ws · Post by **thecrazyperson_ws** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:37 am

LoL... The paint still isn't dry on my install of 2.6.10-nitro3, and you're already thinking of abandoning 2.6.10 entirely? I agree, you shouldn't let anybody else get the first crack at 2.6.11, and when you release it, I'll be all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake, but i'm keeping my stable 10-nitro3 in the bootloader...

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warren@Tidus ~ $ uptime
 04:35:14 up 1 day, 45 min,   4 users,   load average: 4.00, 4.05, 4.29
warren@Tidus ~ $

Really good work, Darckness. Keep at it, and you'll have a permanent nitro user.

EDIT: BTW, the nvidia drivers are still broke if you enable 4K stacks... had to endure a kernel recompile to fix that one...

NiLuJe · Post by **NiLuJe** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:50 am

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*  media-video/nvidia-kernel
      Latest version installed: 1.0.6629-r1

Works fine here, 4KStacks & Regparm ..

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:14 pm

@KoolKam:

it ought be

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patch -p1 -i ../patchname.patch

I broke my fglrx source-dir so it will take another evening...

@Darckness: I tried io_remap_blabla with ati, it has 2 defs:
one is a def for the proper remap_pfn_range, and another needs fifth arg, I went for the pfn change, its the right thing to do.....
And I would suggest the 16k pacth as a stable addition, no issues till now.........

EDIT: remap_page_range also removed in 2.6.11.....*LOL* i oversaw the __deprecated

easthero · Post by **easthero** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:19 pm

hi,all
I am a debian user,I want to compiling the nitro4 kernel in debian.
but I am failure
I download the 2.6.10 kernel form kernel.org

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tar jxvf linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.10
bzcat ../patch-2.6.10-nitro4.bz2 |patch -p1

patching is ok,then I began to compile.
but it give me a message

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 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xb0a28): In function `isd200_get_inquiry_data':
: undefined reference to `ide_fix_driveid'
 make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/easthero/backup/kernel/linux-2.6.10'
make: *** [stamp-build] error 2

so,I patch the nitro4-mm again

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tar jxvf linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.10
bzcat ../patch-2.6.10-nitro4-mm.bz2 |patch -p1

I give me some error message

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1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/kernel/time.c.rej
1 out of 9 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/oprofile/nmi_int.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/mips/kernel/sysirix.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sunos.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sunos32.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c.rej
4 out of 4 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/Kconfig.rej
50 out of 50 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/isicom.c.rej
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/moxa.c.rej
1 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/random.c.rej
.......

Please help me~~~~~
My English is poor,wish you can understand my message

Gentree · Post by **Gentree** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:28 pm

Last few days my mouse has been jumping around rather a lot. Sometimes just to one side , sometime right to the edge of the screen.

This coincides with moving to nitro4 but the fault maybe elsewhere.

Anyone else seeing this sort of behaviour?

Thx

chunderbunny · Post by **chunderbunny** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:54 pm

Gentree wrote:Last few days my mouse has been jumping around rather a lot. Sometimes just to one side , sometime right to the edge of the screen.

This coincides with moving to nitro4 but the fault maybe elsewhere.

Anyone else seeing this sort of behaviour?

Thx

I had that, I spent ages fiddling with settings trying to get it to work. It turns out my mousemat was dirty.

Easthero: Which kernel are you currently using? I had difficulty compiling this kernel with some kernel versions. I switched back to a known stable kernel and 2.6.10-nitro4 compiled just fine.

Tuti · Post by **Tuti** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:36 pm

has anyone tried the -ck4 patchset?

Gentree · Post by **Gentree** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:04 pm

I had that, I spent ages fiddling with settings trying to get it to work. It turns out my mousemat was dirty.

LOL, not far wrong, I was using the black underside of the mat with a Logitec optical mouse. Apparently it could not see where it was going!

Thank goodness for the forum , I'd have spend days (as you probably did) playing around with mouse polling and God knows what else.

Thanks a lot

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:22 pm

Tuti wrote:has anyone tried the -ck4 patchset?

Not yet, but by all accounts it's a very handy update to the staircase scheduler.

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:08 pm

easthero: the mm patch needs to be applied after the regular nitro4 patch.

I think I might go insane waiting for ck/mm to come out. If it takes TOO long, I might just have to hack ck4 into it!

a13x · Post by **a13x** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:00 pm

I really can't download this patch. I just cannot connect to pickledonion.net. The ping is ok, about 50-60ms but everytime I attempt to dl it, Firefox keeps trying to connect but fails. Can anyone post an alternative link for the patch (not the ebuild) or send it to me: a13x_home at yahoo dot com ?

Anyway, why don't you make it available directly at nitro-sources.org as it used to be ?

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:04 pm

a13x: I can't put it on nitro-sources.org because that's seppe's site and I'm not seppe. I think there's a few people here who could probably mirror it, but failing that I'd recommend trying wget to retrieve it instead of firefox.

Tuti · Post by **Tuti** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:12 pm

charlieg wrote:Not yet, but by all accounts it's a very handy update to the staircase scheduler.

Yes, that's what I guessed too, but I can't connect to Con's maillist to read the details. It looks like he bumped the Staircase version number to 10, so I'm guessing it's a significant update. Can't wait to try it!

Legoguy · Post by **Legoguy** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:02 pm

wget is what's failing to connect.. I'll mirror it if need be, although I can't guarantee 100% availability either (one must play with his new Logitech MX1000 in both Windows and Linux

).

a13x · Post by **a13x** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:06 pm

a13x: I can't put it on nitro-sources.org because that's seppe's site and I'm not seppe. I think there's a few people here who could probably mirror it, but failing that I'd recommend trying wget to retrieve it instead of firefox.

The same thing happens with wget .....
Won't seppe give you permission or something to mirror the patch ? AFAIK he is studying ATM and you are in charge of the nitro patch so I see no reason for not mirroring it.

edit;

Thx Legoguy, I'm waiting for the link.

Pink · Post by **Pink** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:23 pm

Legoguy wrote:wget is what's failing to connect.. I'll mirror it if need be, although I can't guarantee 100% availability either (one must play with his new Logitech MX1000 in both Windows and Linux ).

It might be an idea if you could mirror it, it would seem that a handful of people can't get it - I'm not worried about it too much from a server point of view as it is only a very small percentage - but I can't seem to work out why these few can't connect, there seems to be no link (and in all honesty, I would much prefer 100% are able to connect).

If someone has any bright ideas as to why someone wouldn't be able to connect at all to the site (bear in mind, I have had 6.5GB of nitro downloads since Jan 1st so it is literally a handful of people) I would love to hear from you...

anir · Post by **anir** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:44 pm

Mirror: http://home.arcor.de/_aero/nitrosources/

Edit: Ebuild is now fixed and points to my mirror

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:46 pm

a13x: It's not an issue of getting "permission" to mirror the patch. I can put the patch wherever I want to. The issue is getting a place with good speed and a good monthly quota (free) which has an ftp account that links to a web site. PickledOnion has graciously given me access to his site which provides all of those (and definitely surpasses "good" speed!). seppe will be back within a week if I'm not mistaken, and then everything will be back on the nitro-sources site.

Notes on the future of me and nitro-sources:
I've been speaking with seppe about this, and we've worked out a pretty good system for future releases which should allow us to provide excellent QA (something that I know has been one of the few/only weak points of this patchset), stay up-to-date with newly released patches, be able to handle all of your requests, AND have the ability to be both highly experimental and stable at the same time.

I can't tell you exactly what the plan is or what future nitros will hold (still kind of a secret

), but I can tell you that the experimental nitros will only be optionally experimental, just like this one. The want-mm flag looks like it will probably be here to stay, although I'll be changing it to "want-experimental" in the next version to clear up confusion. mm patches might not always be available!

New stuff to expect in the next release:

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Genetic scheduling algorithm
16k stacks
2.6.11-rc1

If anyone wants any other patches that I've forgotten about or are just new, let me know soon!

EDIT: Just finished porting the genetic stuff from 2.6.9. So irritating...

easthero · Post by **easthero** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:41 am

Darckness: thanks for your answer

feld · Post by **feld** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:50 am

good to hear Darckness. You do good work.

Yet ANOTHER audio information update!

According to the mailing list, which i know you probably read, Con's latest scheduler version reportedly resolves all audio problems, among other things.

-Feld

Pink · Post by **Pink** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:13 am

anir wrote:Mirror: http://home.arcor.de/_aero/nitrosources/

Thanks for that, it will help those who can't get to my site .

One small point though, you might want to change the ebuild to point to your site or people will have the same problem....