The Latest Kernel Release.

Olek · 08-13-2022, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garpu

Interesting. Does that mean that upstream fixed the efi boot stub, if the boot stub works for booting?

No. IMO all is because of this:

Code:

Fri Aug  5 21:04:39 UTC 2022
...
a/elilo-3.16-x86_64-13.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to disable the Confidential Computing blob for SEV-SNP, which
  fixes booting a 5.19 kernel with the EFI stub enabled. If you use elilo,
  be sure to either run eliloconfig again or manually copy (and rename) the
  proper elilo binary to your EFI System Partition.
  Thanks to PiterPunk.

Now my system works well with patched elilo, refind and 5.19.1 kernel.

LuckyCyborg · 08-13-2022, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olek

No. IMO all is because of this:

Code:

Fri Aug  5 21:04:39 UTC 2022
...
a/elilo-3.16-x86_64-13.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to disable the Confidential Computing blob for SEV-SNP, which
  fixes booting a 5.19 kernel with the EFI stub enabled. If you use elilo,
  be sure to either run eliloconfig again or manually copy (and rename) the
  proper elilo binary to your EFI System Partition.
  Thanks to PiterPunk.

Now my system works well with patched elilo, refind and 5.19.1 kernel.

He talks about direct booting the kernel using UEFI, with no bootloader at all.

Yes, it's possible, because thanks to mentioned EFI stub, any kernel is also a valid EFI binary, capable to be executed by UEFI firmware.

garpu · 08-13-2022, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olek

No. IMO all is because of this:

Code:

Fri Aug  5 21:04:39 UTC 2022
...
a/elilo-3.16-x86_64-13.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to disable the Confidential Computing blob for SEV-SNP, which
  fixes booting a 5.19 kernel with the EFI stub enabled. If you use elilo,
  be sure to either run eliloconfig again or manually copy (and rename) the
  proper elilo binary to your EFI System Partition.
  Thanks to PiterPunk.

Now my system works well with patched elilo, refind and 5.19.1 kernel.

Yeah, the poster above (Chuck) mentioned booting via the stub, so elilo wouldn't factor in. That booting the kernel directly worked with the 5.19.1 kernel made me wonder if something were changed upstream.

Didier Spaier · 08-13-2022, 07:11 PM

As an aside, I just built 5.19.1 (using Patrick's config file this time) and installed it on a system based on Slackware 14.2, no issue so far.

cwizardone · 08-14-2022, 06:17 PM

6.0-rc1
Release Candidate 1, for the 6.0 "mainline" development kernel has been been made available for testing.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...6.0-rc1.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.1/06638.html

cwizardone · 08-14-2022, 08:12 PM

FWIW: Just built and installed the 6.0-rc1 kernel.
As expected, the Nvidia driver did not build.
OTOH, I was pleasantly surprised to see VirtualBox-Test-Build-6.1.37-152741, build and run as it should.
Using the nouveau driver for now and so far, so good.

cwizardone · 08-15-2022, 01:44 PM

Year 2022, Round 49.

Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 17 August 2022, at approximately 18:00 GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).

The details:

5.19.2-rc1, with 1157 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.1/09205.html

5.18.18-rc1, with 1095 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.1/08512.html

5.15.61-rc1, with 779 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.1/07658.html

cwizardone · 08-16-2022, 09:04 AM

A second set of release candidates for the Round 49 kernel updates have been made available for testing.

Quote:

Responses should be made by Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:43:10 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

5.19.2-rc2, with 1157 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/01076.html

5.18.18-rc2, with 1094 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/01077.html

5.15.61-rc2, with 778 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/01075.html

Jan K. · 08-16-2022, 10:32 AM

Wow! There's a dozen ext4 fixes hiding in there!

cwizardone · 08-17-2022, 07:46 AM

Kernel updates 5.19.2, 5.18.18 and 5.15.61 are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/

The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-5.19.2

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.18.18

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.15.61

3rensho · 08-17-2022, 08:51 AM

5.19.2 running fine. Built with defaults for the new config options that were offered. Nvidia built too sans problem

kjhambrick · 08-17-2022, 12:37 PM

all --

Generic Kernel Version 5.15.61.kjh is running fine on my Slackware64 15.0 + Multilib LapTop.

Also running the latest kernel-firmware and intel-microcode ( thanks to Andrzej Telszewski ) with 5.15.61

-- kjh

Code:

uname -msrpn: Linux kjhlt7.kjh.home 5.15.61.kjh x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz
firmware ...: kernel-firmware-20220815_8413c63-noarch-1
NVidia Blob : NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run
VMWare Blob : VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64.bundle

No new Vulnerabilities nor mitigations with 5.15.61

Code:

Wed Aug 17 12:30:06 CDT 2022

  Linux kjhlt7.kjh.home 5.15.61.kjh #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 12:01:23 CDT 2022 x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

  dmesg
    microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x54, date = 2022-03-17
    Linux version 5.15.61.kjh (root@kjhlt7.kjh.home) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld version 2.37-slack15) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 12:01:23 CDT 2022
    Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-generic-5.15.61.kjh root=UUID=6c71cd77-2463-408e-a992-ad6064b0651b ro nvidia-drm.modeset=1
    DMI: Notebook X170KM-G/X170KM-G, BIOS 1.07.06LS1 01/11/2020

  cpuinfo
    CPU Name:   11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz
    Microcode:  0x54
    CPU FMS:    06-a7-01
    UCode Pkg:  intel-microcode-20220809-noarch-1_SBo_kjh  ( updated Aug 13 17:02 )
    UCode File: /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-a7-01         ( updated Aug 13 17:01 )
    UCode Info: 001/001: sig 0x000a0671, pf_mask 0x02, 2022-03-17, rev 0x0054, size 103424
    CPU bugs:   spectre_v1, spectre_v2, spec_store_bypass, swapgs, mmio_stale_data, retbleed, eibrs_pbrsb

  vulnerability and mitigation files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/
    itlb_multihit:       Not affected
    l1tf:                Not affected
    mds:                 Not affected
    meltdown:            Not affected
    mmio_stale_data:     Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
    retbleed:            Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
    spec_store_bypass:   Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
    spectre_v1:          Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
    spectre_v2:          Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
    srbds:               Not affected
    tsx_async_abort:     Not affected

cwizardone · 08-17-2022, 04:14 PM

The 5.19.y kernel series has been moved to /-current from /-current/testing.
Please see, https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6374385

cwizardone · 08-18-2022, 11:04 AM

If you are using the 5.18.y kernel, be forewarned.

Quote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 - 09:34:28 EST
.............
5.18 is only going to be alive for one more week at most, so I wouldn't
worry too much about this.
thanks!
greg k-h

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/02499.html

cwizardone · 08-19-2022, 11:25 AM

Year 2022, Round 50.

Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Sunday, 21 August 2022, at approximately 15:00 GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Saturday (depending on your time zone).

The details:

5.19.3-rc1, with 7 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/05674.html

5.18.19-rc1, with 6 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/05682.html

Quote:

-------------------
NOTE, this is the LAST 5.18.y stable release. This tree will be
end-of-life after this one. Please move to 5.19.y at this point in time
or let us know why that is not possible.
-------------------

5.15.62-rc1, with 14 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/05703.html

5.10.137-rc1, with 545 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...8.2/05722.html