On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > To get some extra testing for the upcoming 2.6.18 release, > I've made some kernels based on 2.6.18rc7git2 > You can find them at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/ > > Please file bugs in bugzilla against FC5, even though these > kernels are somewhat similar to whats in rawhide right now. > > Known 'problems': > > - For the time being, there aren't any Xen kernels, this will > be fixed up when time comes for a real update. > - They currently have a bunch of extra debugging options turned > on so may 'feel' a little slower than the current FC5 kernels. > This too, will be fixed. > - They'll output a lot more text to the console during boot > than FC5. Like rawhide, the 'quiet' option has been disabled > in order to ease debugging. (It's a lot easier to ask someone > what the last thing on the screen is than to walk people through > removing the quiet option a hundred times) > > These caveats aside, it seems to have survived my tests for the last > day, so it's time for some wider testing. i've been running the latest "git pull" 2.6 kernels on my FC5 system for a few weeks now, seems to be working fine. well, OK, except for that "intel_rng" warning at boot time, but i'm too lazy at the moment to do anything about that. rday
