New kernels

[Hypex]

I was hoping to test some new kernels but got a bit stuck. I merged my Ubuntu Xenial with my Fienix partition to give it more space. After backing up files. But it failed when I tried to create a new volume for Fienix. I had over 20 partitions and maybe stuck on SCSI device 16 limit. I recently found I couldn't mount any volume after the limit. Which seems ridiculous as I still have 250GB space on the end of my drive which is unheard of with most of my systems. Perhaps Xenial is compatible with v6 kernels, I should test that. Keep me going in the meantime.

[xeno74]

I had over 20 partitions and maybe stuck on SCSI device 16 limit. I recently found I couldn't mount any volume after the limit.

Interesting! Good to know.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the RC7 of kernel 6.5 for testing today.

New:

• Linux 6.5-rc7 Released: Stable Linux 6.5 Expected Next Week -- phoronix.com
• Release announcement
• PowerPC fix 6.5-6
• Networking fixes (including virtio-net fixes)
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.5

Download: linux-image-6.5-rc7-X1000_X5000.tar.gz

Screenshots of the RC7 with the new SeaLion 32.3.1:





Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[musa]

Hi
Debian trixie/sid 32 running with vmlinux-6.5_rc7
Have a nice day

[xeno74]

Hi
Debian trixie/sid 32 running with vmlinux-6.5_rc7
Have a nice day

Thank you for testing the RC7!

[xeno74]

FYI: journalctl -k -b -1 gives logs from previous boot.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The final kernel 6.5 is available. Thanks a lot to Skateman, Kilaueabart, Musa, and Hypex for testing the alphas and release candidates.

New:

• Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 & More Hardware Bits -- phoronix.com
• Linux 6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & More -- phoronix.com
• Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is -- theregister.com
• Release announcement
• NFSd fixes
• NFS client fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.5

Download: linux-image-6.5-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Cheers,
Christian

[Hypex]

Interesting! Good to know.

Okay, so it looks like a limitation placed on the SCSI subsystem, which is inherited in the sda devices scheme. So, SCSI devices can only have max 16 with max 16 partitions. While IDE, which once used the hda scheme, can have max 64 partitions. Which looks ridiculous. As pointed out, regardless of Linux for some reason taking SCSI and using it (like on Amiga) as a storage device convention SCSI said nothing about any partition layout.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/350358/ ... f-12-04-on

https://superuser.com/questions/944112/ ... partitions

I was about to add volumes in Disks beyond but then it gave me an error creating it. I could only create extra partitions in Media Toolbox and format in Disks. Indeed, I discovered this when trying to mount a /dev/sda22, which happened to be in FFS and it couldn't mount on the device point.

When using amiga-fdisk it too refused to work with it and gave me errors of RDB 16 partition limit. I've never heard of this limit before in Amiga. Given you can format a drive with GPT which has 128 partition limits and can only max it out at 16 in software proves there is something wrong with the Linux device drivers. Neither SCSI nor RDB places these limits on the disk partitions but somehow, for some historic reason, Linux does.

I can't find the link now but I read by specifying cylinder alignment on RDB disk can circumvent this limit and can confirm that also can work.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The merge window for 6.6 has been started and here is the first alpha for testing.

New:

• NFSD With Linux 6.6 Brings A Thrilling New Feature -- phoronix.com
• PowerPC updates 6.6-1 (including PASEMI updates)
• DMA mapping updates
• Networking updates (including DPAA updates)
• XFS online metadata check support
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.6

Download: linux-image-6.6-alpha1-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Please test the alpha1.

Thanks,
Christian

[musa]

Hi
Vmlinux-6.6_a1 boot on Debian trixie 64
have a nice day