Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 29.04.2007 21:08, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > So, what will we do in the future? Can we (after F7 is out and rawhide > > rolls again) please switch to something less confusing where version > > somehow allows normal users to cl

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:30:02PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:55:15 -0500, Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What about MSI? On or off? > > Off for FC6, on for Rawhide, or at least this is how I understood > DaveJ's preference. I did the same thing in r

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:55:15 -0500, Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about MSI? On or off? Off for FC6, on for Rawhide, or at least this is how I understood DaveJ's preference. Considering how unstable it is, makes sense, I guess. I have a laptop (Dell 1501), where MSI is DOA. Very

Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:28 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:11 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > silo can't be fixed ? > > Maybe. How's your forth? I've noticed similar restrictions in yaboot. josh ___ Fedora-kernel-list mai

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 04:55:15PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Early preview of F7 features, saves power yadayada, may find new > > bugs. (Gets us that nice fuzzy 'f6 bugs are f7 bugs' bonus though) > > - Turn NO_HZ on, but do the same as we did for MSI (enable the config, > > but only

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread Jay Cliburn
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:57:49 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could do a rebase to .21 this week, and push that out to testing, > and if anything critical turns up before that becomes deemed stable, > we could push a branched build off of .20 directly to updates. > > Most of the s

Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Tom \"spot\" Callaway
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:11 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > silo can't be fixed ? Maybe. How's your forth? ~spot ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than 15 > characters. So, for example, when booty tries to automagically label a > new kernel on Aurora, we get a label like: > > 2.6.22-1.3200.fc > > The more

Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > So, what will we do in the future? Can we (after F7 is out and rawhide > rolls again) please switch to something less confusing where version > somehow allows normal users to clearly see what kernel they got? And one > that d

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:36:32PM +0200, dragoran wrote: > 2.6.21.1 is out ... so whats the plan now? Relase a FC6 > update(updates-testing) or stick with 2.6.20.x until 2.6.22 is > out/2.6.21 get some more testing? We could do a rebase to .21 this week, and push that out to testing, and if

Re: Keep the FC6 kernel at 2.6.20 or move it to 2.6.21?

2007-04-29 Thread dragoran
2.6.21.1 is out ... so whats the plan now? Relase a FC6 update(updates-testing) or stick with 2.6.20.x until 2.6.22 is out/2.6.21 get some more testing? ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/l

Re: Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Tom \"spot\" Callaway
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:03 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > kernel-2.6.22-1.3200.fc7.rc2.git15 Not to distract from Thorsten's good points here, but the longer the kernel n-v-r, the more painful it is for SPARC. The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than 15 characters. So

Pre-release kernel versioning

2007-04-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi all! I'd like to put a old but still valid discussion on the table again where a solution never was found: Pre-release kernel versioning. In short: Kernel like for example kernel-2.6.20-1.3066.fc7 are in reality 2.6.21-rc6-git5. That's not only confusing to users, it also breaks outside kernel