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The 2.6.15 kernel is out
Linus has announced the availability of the
2.6.15 kernel. The changelog entry for the release says "Hey, it's
fifteen years today since I bought the machine that got Linux started.
January 2nd is a good date." This release contains a fair number of
fixes since -rc7, but no big changes. The 2.6.15 series as a whole has
added a big set of 802.11 improvements, hotplug memory support, much-improved NTFS
support, much-improved CIFS support, the open-iSCSI initiator, shared subtrees, a new,
IPv6-capable netfilter connection tracking implementation, and much more.
The
long-format changelog has the details. See also LWN's Kernel Page
coverage of features as they were added (here and here) and the KernelNewbies Linux
Changes Wiki.
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The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 0:01 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Hmm, doesn't seem to have anything over 2.6.14 that I would expect to use.
Maybe the wireless encryption stuff brings support for Broadcom & other cheap wireless chips closer, so that 2.6.15.x might reasonably get in-kernel support for them.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 0:11 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] On my Ibook I am currently using 2.6.15rc5 along with the beta-level broadcom drivers for my "Apple Airport Extreme" wifi.
If it wasn't for the fact that Apple decided to use a screwed up mini-pci formfactor for it's wifi card I would of replaced it long ago with a rt2500 card. (works with ural-linux drivers in ppc-land)
But it works fairly well. The only issue that I've had so far is with dhcp not working.. you just have to setup the network staticly. And it looses the network connection when the system goes to sleep. I have to unload and reload the module for that to work, I use a script.
Other then that it's fine.
Still rather would have a different card though.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 8:27 UTC (Wed) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] Sleep works? News to me. I can't even get the LCD brightness to change on my powerbook.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 20:01 UTC (Wed) by wingo (subscriber, #26929) [Link] You probably have an nvidia card, which needs either rivafb or nvidiafb compiled into the kernel and the boot line video=riva (or nvidia).
The nvidia card is the crappiest part of my 12 inch powerbook. Grr.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 5, 2006 1:20 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Ya..
Sleep works perfectly. Suspend to ram so to say.
There was some problem with either 2.6.13 or 2.6.14 (can't quite remember) were you'd have the system oops/panic with USB devices being plugged in and such, but that's been solved for me at least. It's hasn't paniced or oopsie at all when it comes to powermanagement.
The reason that I choose the Ibook is because of the ATI 9200 which is the nicest video card that DRI supports well and the Ibook was the smallest laptop that I could afford that had good battery life and a dvd player.
(I suppose the r300 project is improving although I won't buy a ATI card newer then that because I am not about to reward ATI for sucking)
It's amazing how well the Linux stuff works when all your hardware is fully supported by open source drivers. In certain aspects behavior with sleep is superior to OS X.. with latest kernels, of course. The only possible exception is wifi, which Linux hasn't been very hot in. I expect that the rapidly maturing 802.11g protocol stack will improve this.
It seems for me that in the future when buying a notebook I am going to look strongly at a Intel platform since Intel releases docs and such for their video cards.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 0:21 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] On my Ibook I am currently using 2.6.15rc5 along with the beta-level broadcom drivers for my "Apple Airport Extreme" wifi.
If it wasn't for the fact that Apple decided to use a screwed up mini-pci formfactor for it's wifi card I would of replaced it long ago with a rt2500 card. (works with ural-linux drivers in ppc-land)
But it works fairly well. The only issue that I've had so far is with dhcp not working.. you just have to setup the network staticly. And it looses the network connection when the system goes to sleep. I have to unload and reload the module for that to work, I use a script.
Other then that it's fine.
Still rather would have a different card though.
The other thing that I noticed that has changed was that alsa started enabling dmix by default. This should solve a lot of problems with cpu usage caused by weird buffers sizes in the sound card and making it easier to use multiple alsa-aware/alsa-configured applications together without having to delve into a asoundrc file.
Not sure when that changed happenned... It was with the 1.0.9 alsa drivers I think. But I don't know how that corresponds to alsa drivers in the kernel.org kernel.
As for 'not having a reason to upgrade'.
I take that as a good sign. Shows that 2.6 is finally becoming mature. 95% of everybody should have no reason to upgrade past what their distro provides them by default nowadays.. just as long as their distro keeps up on the security front. As for us using custom kernels we pretty much always have to track the kernel.org developement for the security fixes. Although it was nice to back port some of them to 2.6.13 lately. I think that 2.6.12 pretty much was a turning point for kernel development. Or at least it seems like it to me.
Kudos to the Linux developers for making a 'boring' kernel for once. :)
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 0:24 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] sorry for the double post.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 2:15 UTC (Wed) by DiegoCG (subscriber, #9198) [Link] Hey, the shared tree stuff is anything but boring ;)
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 2:48 UTC (Wed) by rise (guest, #5045) [Link] That seems unlikely, the x.x.x.x series is for fixes only. Adding a driver isn't going to happen, but we can hope for support in the new dev series.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 7:33 UTC (Wed) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] For people with a computer using the SIS 965L southbridge, kernel 2.6.15 is essential. This is the first kernel to support DMA for the built in IDE controller.
There have been patches around earlier, but this is the first kernel release where it is included.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 7:39 UTC (Wed) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] For people who have an NTFS partition on their computer, the improved NTFS write support might be worth the compile.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 12:19 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] And it seems that RS480/RS482-chipset problems might be finally fixed. Previously they have been requiring acpi=noirq noapic. And there should also now be some disable_timer_pin_1-option too for fixing some of these problems that may not be automatically solved, without the need to disable acpi/apic stuff.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 13:43 UTC (Wed) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] Well, with this kernel, the SATA ATAPI support is finally fully working, and I can use my SATA burner at last!
They also fixed the emu10k1 MIDI that seemed to be broken in 2.6.14.
On other fronts, NVIDIA drivers compiled without a hitch, and unionfs too. All in all, great kernel.
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 18:19 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Speaking of SATA, does anyone know when the SMART tools will be supported?
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 4, 2006 23:47 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link] Now?bcook@bcook-box:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA ST380013AS Version: 8.12 In Linux, SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by smartmontools. By the time you read this, support may have been added in recent kernels. Try an additional '-d ata' argument. bcook@bcook-box:~$ sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family Device Model: ST380013AS Serial Number: 5MR2P0YY Firmware Version: 8.12 User Capacity: 80,000,000,000 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2 Local Time is: Wed Jan 4 17:42:21 2006 CST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
The 2.6.15 kernel is out Posted Jan 5, 2006 12:15 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link] http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html#smart
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 4, 2006 23:14 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Am I the only one getting an OOPS with 2.6.15 somewhere in the HID drivers? I get a kernel message at bootup saying something about dereferencing a null pointer somewhere in the HID driver stuff. I'm almost afraid of trying to report this to the kernel.org folks as they filter out so much due to Spam issues that I'm afraid my post won't be noticed. Interestingly, one of the patches to 2.6.15 is a fix of an OOPS in the HID driver (according to the long-format changelog. I haven't had any kernel issues with 2.6.{13.x|14.x} on my Slackware 10.2 system, and I'm using a nearly identical config to 2.6.14.5 (which works fine). Any ideas?
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 4, 2006 23:16 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Never be afraid to report problems on the kernel mailing list. If you don't report them, the chances of them being fixed are smaller. Post the oops information and, with luck, 2.6.15.1 will work for you.
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 4, 2006 23:31 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Thank you for the supporting words of confidence regarding whether to post my OOPS issue to the LKML. I'll make sure to do so later this evening. I gather from reading between the lines of your post that only by sharing our experiences using/running Linux will it actually grow/succeed, and (speaking for myself as a dedicated Linux user/evangelist), I feel a responsibility to provide feedback on issues and concerns regarding the kernel.
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 5, 2006 3:31 UTC (Thu) by chad.netzer (✭ supporter ✭, #4257) [Link] YOu are also welcome (even encouraged) to post bugs to bugzilla.kernel.org, or at least to check there to see if they've been reported.
my search for "HID" bugs doesn't yet reveal any listed for 2.6.15:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFI...
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 5, 2006 17:05 UTC (Thu) by juhl (subscriber, #33245) [Link] Definately report Oops'es and other errors to LKML.If bugs/problems are not reported they won't get fixed. Bug reports are greatly appreciated, especially good ones. Do everyone a favour and read Documentation/ReportingBugs before you post :-)
2.6.15 gives my PC an OOPS Posted Jan 5, 2006 14:46 UTC (Thu) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890) [Link] Well, the kernel mailing list or the bug tracking system of your distribution. =)
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