New kernels

[xeno74]

Kernel 6.6 Alpha3 up and running on my AmigaOne X5000 and so does BillyFrontier 1-1-1

Thanks a lot for testing the alpha3 and thanks for testing BillyFrontier 1.1.1.

[xeno74]

[PATCH for v6.6] media: bt8xx: bttv_risc_packed(): remove field checks

Do not turn on the vcr_hack based on the btv->field value.
This was a change in the bttv vb2 conversion that caused green lines at the bottom of the picture in tvtime.
It was originally added to the vb2 conversion based on faulty information that without this there would be glitches in the video. However, later tests suggest that this is a problem in the utilities used to test this since tvtime behaves fine.
This patch reverts the bttv driver to the original pre-vb2 behavior w.r.t. vcr_hack.

Code: Select all

drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-risc.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-risc.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-risc.c
index 436baf6c8b08..241a696e374a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-risc.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-risc.c
@@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ bttv_risc_packed(struct bttv *btv, struct btcx_riscmem *risc,
   sg = sglist;
   for (line = 0; line < store_lines; line++) {
       if ((line >= (store_lines - VCR_HACK_LINES)) &&
-            (btv->opt_vcr_hack ||
-            (V4L2_FIELD_HAS_BOTH(btv->field) ||
-             btv->field == V4L2_FIELD_ALTERNATE)))
+            btv->opt_vcr_hack)
           continue;
       while (offset && offset >= sg_dma_len(sg)) {
           offset -= sg_dma_len(sg);

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC1 of kernel 6.6 for testing.

New:

• Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs -- phoronix.com
• 6.6-rc1 announcement
• PCI fixes (PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES)
• DMA mapping fixes
• SCSI updates (including MPT3SAS updates)
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.6

Download: linux-image-6.6-rc1-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[Roland]

Has there been any updates to the Nec Renesas (USB chip) driver in the latest kernel versions? My Silverstone USB 3.0 controller card still has problems with USB 3.0 devices. They are not recognized if the device is already connected when booting, and this naturally prevents loading the root filesystem from an USB 3.0 disk.

[xeno74]

Has there been any updates to the Nec Renesas (USB chip) driver in the latest kernel versions? My Silverstone USB 3.0 controller card still has problems with USB 3.0 devices. They are not recognized if the device is already connected when booting, and this naturally prevents loading the root filesystem from an USB 3.0 disk.

If the problems still persist, then I don't think there have been any updates. You can report these problems to the kernel developers.

[Roland]

If the problems still persist, then I don't think there have been any updates. You can report these problems to the kernel developers.

How can yoiu do that, so that the developers would take the report seriously? I remember that my last attempt to send info on some mailing list was a limbo, not any reaction from the kernel team.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC2 of kernel 6.6 for testing.

New:

• Linux 6.6-rc2 Released - 32 Years Since Linux 0.01 Released -- phoronix.com
• 6.6-rc2 announcement
• [PATCH for v6.6] media: bt8xx: bttv_risc_packed(): remove field checks (bttv_v6.6.patch)
• NFSd fixes
• DRM fixes (including Radeon fix)
• EXT4 fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.6

Download: linux-image-6.6-rc2-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[Skateman]

Kernel 6.6 RC2 up and running on my AmigaOne X5000



Big picture https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -11-04.png

[xeno74]

Kernel 6.6 RC2 up and running on my AmigaOne X5000

Great! Thanks a lot for testing! Have a nice weekend!

[kilaueabart]

I'm back to this, over and over, when I download to void: 6.6-rc2-X1000_X5000.tar_3.gz: not in gzip format. Both Void and Fienix have pretty much quit working the last two or three days. But I'l try OS4 for the download again.