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kernel-5.17.4 built with the new GCC-11.3.0 and had no problems. New config option was offered and accepted default. Nvidia-510.60.02 built without problems as well
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2022, Round 25.
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 28 April 2022, at approximately 08:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Wednesday (depending on your time zone).
I'm still runnig slackware64-14.2 but have been testing the 5.15.x kernels on my hardware. I'm continuing to have a slowdown with lots of kworker threads when I try to extract the linux source tarball (e.g., tar xvf linux-5.15.36.tar.xz). If I wait, it finished the extraction/decompression okay. If I delete the source code it is fast, but then if I run sync then there is slowness to finish the sync to disk. I also get "clocksource" messages in dmesg sometimes. I disabled HPET a few days ago, and my system uses TSC clocksource.
Well, I'm going back to kernel 4.4.302 for a while to see if these problems persist on the older kernel.
Perhaps if I do the full slackware64 15.0 upgrade these problems go away? Anyone have any comments or suggestions about these problems?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,167
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Year 2022, Round 26.
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Sunday, 1 May 2022, at approximately 10:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Saturday (depending on your time zone).
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Sunday, 1 May 2022, at approximately 10:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Saturday (depending on your time zone).
Here's a new Kernel config which MAY be related to bitfuzzy's recent issue with errant Floppy Detection:
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* Block devices
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Block devices (BLK_DEV) [Y/n/?] y
Null test block driver (BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK) [M/n/y/?] m
Normal floppy disk support (BLK_DEV_FD) [Y/n/m/?] y
Support for raw floppy disk commands (DEPRECATED) (BLK_DEV_FD_RAWCMD) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,167
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Year 2022, Round 27.
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Friday, 6 May 2022, at approximately 15:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Thursday (depending on your time zone).
Whilst waiting for 5.17.6 to drop I rebuilt 5.17.5 with the new GCC-12.1 packages. Build went fine. Very slightly smaller kernel resulted (generic). Offered one config change and accepted the default. During kernel build saw lots of warnings about array's, no errors. Boots fine and the Nvidia-510.68.02 built without problems.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by 3rensho
Whilst waiting for 5.17.6 to drop.......
Yes, it would appear Mr. K-H has taken a few days off.
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
After being down for another 8 days, The Linux-Kernel Archive By Thread message board came back to life at 00:15:01 EST, this morning 24 April 2022.
Obviously, no one is minding the store.
Where are the adults?
And, The Linux-Kernel Archive By Thread message board is down, yet, again! It hasn't been updated since Saturday, May 07, 2022 at 23:03:38 EST (US).
Last edited by cwizardone; 05-08-2022 at 06:58 PM.
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