New kernels

[xeno74]

New for the alpha6 of kernel 7.2:

• Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware -- phoronix.com
• New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2 -- phoronix.com
• exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion -- phoronix.com
• NTFS updates
• exFAT updates
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 7.2

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I have released the alpha6 of kernel 7.2 with NTFS Resurrection and exFAT updates.

Downloads and further information: github.com



Cheers,
Christian

[sailorMH]

alpha6 of kernel 7.2 works fine on X1000


P.S. Mirari I will test later - now rebuilding it from testbed to new case and make new installations of OSes...

[xeno74]

alpha6 of kernel 7.2 works fine on X1000

Thank you very much for testing.

[xeno74]

New for the alpha7 of kernel 7.2:

• 9p updates
• USB and Thunderbolt driver updates
• SCSI updates
• Firewire updates
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 7.2

[xeno74]

Modify the version string of the Linux kernel:

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' vmlinux-7.2

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gunzip zImage-7.2.gz

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' zImage-7.2

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binwalk -e uImage-7.2

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cd _uImage-7.2.extracted

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' 40

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gzip -9 40

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mkimage -A powerpc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n "Linux-7.2.0-a7-powerpc64-smp" -d 40.gz uImage

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the alpha7 of kernel 7.2 today.

Downloads and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

New for the alpha8 of kernel 7.2:

• More MM updates (including PowerPC updates)
• NFS client updates
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 7.2

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the alpha8 of kernel 7.2 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