New kernels

[xeno74]

Hi
Debian 64 trixie/sid running with vmlinux-6.15_rc3

Thanks for testing the RC3.

[Hypex]

Hi All,

I released the RC3 of kernel 6.15 today.

Working fine on all my test systems. I am seeing some kind of CGroup error coming up a lot. Didn't notice it on Debian.

[Hypex]

So I'm finding that with testing kernels on more than one volume it can be a bit of work installing kernel and modules to host system and copying modules to all intended targets. Although it can survive well without it and still boot I like to have the modules preinstalled on all my test volumes for proper booting. For this reason I looked up a way to copy from one place to multiple destinations. I found no direct way to do it with cp and it looks like cp has fallen behind with this feature. But it can be scripted with a one liner on the command line.

What I do is mount all volumes first. I like to use the file manager as pressing 5 drive widgets is faster for me that mounting five volumes by hand on a terminal. Whatever way suits you best. I then do a command like this:

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cd /media/damien; for m in $(ls); do sudo cp -ru --parents /lib/modules/6.15.0-* $m; done

This will now copy all updated modules from host or current system to all volumes mounted under media. In this case for kernel 6.15 in testing. Make sure you have also unmounted any USB sticks or other volumes you don't want included. Just substitute your own user name like musa or xeno74.

As a bonus you can keep the ClipIt app handy for saving clip copies. I discovered this only a couple or so years back on x86 Linux. And found it's in PPC Linux. I'm finding a lot of handy apps I've discovered in modern times existed back in Precise. And I can install them on my Ubuntus. SearchMonkey, Meld and ReText are all there for the picking.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the new stable long-term kernel 5.10.235 with non-compressed kernel modules today.

Download: github.com

Alternative download link: linux-image-5.10.235-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

This kernel has been patched with the dpaa-v2.patch because of an issue with DPAA on Ubuntu 16.04.

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.

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

I have figure out, that the new 6.12 kernels and higher don't work with the DPAA Ethernet on Ubuntu 16.04 PowerPC. Please use the stable long-term kernel 5.10 instead if you want to use an older Ubuntu system.

[xeno74]

I have figure out, that the new 6.12 kernels and higher don't work with the DPAA Ethernet on Ubuntu 16.04 PowerPC. Please use the stable long-term kernel 5.10 instead if you want to use an older Ubuntu system.

Sometimes it works with the stable long-term kernel 6.12.22 too but not often.

[xeno74]

For compiling the RC4, you need the packages libelf-dev, libelf1, and zlib1g-dev additionally.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC4 of kernel 6.15 for testing.

Download and further information: github.com

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC4 of kernel 6.15 for testing.

Download and further information: github.com

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

FYI:

file linux-image-6.15.0-rc4-X1000_e5500/X1000/vmlinux-6.15


Output:

linux-image-6.15.0-rc4-X1000_e5500/X1000/vmlinux-6.15: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, OpenPOWER ELF V2 ABI, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=da029e7590b25fb059f8154a96a92c0a5e9f9cbb, not stripped

[Hypex]

Tested latest RC4 on Debian and Fienix. Working fine so far. No issues detected.

In addition I may have found the reason for the modules.dep not being found. I was researching it and found people had similar issues online and some related to a ramdisk. So I may have been looking for the modules.dep in the wrong place and more so the kernel. I thought it was looking on the root system but it looks like it was looking in the ramdisk! I've checked some ramdisks and found the modules.dep was included but is an empty file, while on another it was included with a small list . Making sure the ramdisk matches the kernel and system running mkinitramfs has those modules installed should solve the two issues I had with libpcre and missing module.dep errors.

[xeno74]

Tested latest RC4 on Debian and Fienix. Working fine so far. No issues detected.

Great! Thank you for testing!

I though it was looking on the root system but it looks like it was looking in the ramdisk!

Interesting.