New kernels

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I have released the stable long-term kernel 5.10.247 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

It seems that it is faster than the latest kernels 6.12 and 6.19.

X5000/40, Radeon HD6870 and Void PPC with kernel 5.10.247: glmark2 Score: 4174
X5000/40, Radeon HD6870 and Void PPC with kernel 6.12.62: glmark2 Score: 3549
X5000/40, Radeon HD6870 and Void PPC with kernel 6.19.0-rc2: glmark2 Score: 3600

It's suitable for old Linux distributions which don't work with the latest kernels for example Ubuntu 10.04.
It's also suitable if you have some issues with the latest kernels.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernel.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

New for the RC3 of kernel 6.19:

• Linux 6.19-rc3 Released With A Holiday's Week Of Fixes -- phoronix.com
• 6.19-rc3 announcement
• PowerPC fixes 6.19-2 (We don’t need the msr_interrupt.patch anymore. Further information: powerpc/32: Restore disabling of interrupts at interrupt/syscall exit)
• Sound fixes
• SCSI fixes
• Firewire fix
• USB fixes
• NFSd fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.19

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the RC3 of kernel 6.19 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[Hypex]

Hi All,

I have released the stable long-term kernel 5.10.247 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

So installed to my Precise and testing now. Working fine from what I can tell. I found zeitgeist-fts had crashed but that may be normal with the older desktops exhibiting common bugs.

Will test the 6.19 RC3 next but it may be next year before I report back.

[xeno74]

So installed to my Precise and testing now. Working fine from what I can tell. I found zeitgeist-fts had crashed but that may be normal with the older desktops exhibiting common bugs.

Will test the 6.19 RC3 next but it may be next year before I report back.

Thank you for testing!

[xeno74]

[Hypex]

Happy New Year.

So tested the 6.19 RC3 on my Mate and Debian installs. I messed up installing the modules to Mate as they were missing. But it booted fine, with a ram disk, showing no module errors in log so the kernel is fairly robust by itself. Typing this from Debian now. Which boots without ram disk and all modules are installed. Both working fine without issues.

[xeno74]

Happy New Year.

So tested the 6.19 RC3 on my Mate and Debian installs. I messed up installing the modules to Mate as they were missing. But it booted fine, with a ram disk, showing no module errors in log so the kernel is fairly robust by itself. Typing this from Debian now. Which boots without ram disk and all modules are installed. Both working fine without issues.

Happy New Year. Many thanks for testing!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Happy New Year.

I have created a Dockerfile for creating images for cross-compiling Linux PowerPC Linux kernels.

These images can be used for Docker containers or for pods in Kubernetes.

The biggest advantage is, that the Linux PowerPC cross-compiling environment can be easily rolled out and is always the same on a wide variety of computers.

I used this image to create the stable long-term kernel 6.12.63 for testing.

Download of the stable long-term kernel 6.12.63 package and the corresponding Dockerfile: github.com

You can also create the image via git:

Code: Select all

docker build -t ubuntu_kernel_dev https://github.com/chzigotzky/kernels.git#main

Could you please test the kernel 6.12.63 because of the new cross-compiling environment?

@Mirari users
Please test the USB3.0 Renesas controller because of the firmware file from the git. I hope, I have uploaded the correct firmware to the git.

Monitoring the Docker container while compiling the kernel:



Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Building the Linux PPC cross compiling image with docker buildx: