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The 2.6.33 kernel is out
At last, Linus has released the 2.6.33
kernel. "The most noticeable features in 2.6.33 are likely the
Nouveau and DRBD integration (and a _lot_ more people will notice the
Nouveau part of that). And the Radeon KMS parts aren't considered
experimental any more. Oh, and the AS IO scheduler is gone, since keeping
it around and just causing confusion seemed to not be worth it any
more. You're supposed to use CFQ instead." Other interesting stuff
in 2.6.33 includes dynamic
tracing, the block I/O
bandwidth controller, and the compressed cache mechanism.
The best place for information on new kernel releases is KernelNewbies, and the KernelNewbies 2.6.33 page (which is working again) does not disappoint. (Log in to post comments)
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 24, 2010 21:23 UTC (Wed) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]
Which upcoming distro releases will ship it? (I think ATA Trim support is crucial for SSDs)
Last I heard is that Debian and Ubuntu will stay with .32.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 24, 2010 21:28 UTC (Wed) by zeekec (subscriber, #2414) [Link] Already available in Gentoo ;)
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 24, 2010 21:41 UTC (Wed) by bcbarnes (guest, #51878) [Link]
Browsing some mirrors, it looks like Fedora 13 will be using 2.6.33
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 24, 2010 22:05 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Fedora almost always updates its older supported distributions to the latest kernel as well, because it's easier than backporting security fixes. So I'm sure 12 will end up with this version before long.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 8:45 UTC (Thu) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]
They'll need to upgrade F12 to 2.6.32 first :-)
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 8:47 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Available in updates-testing repo
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-Februa...
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 24, 2010 23:35 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
openSUSE Factory moved to 2.6.33 (resp. the -rc version within last weeks) already; so you can expect it or a future version in 11.3.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 0:05 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]
MeeGo will pick this one up before its release for sure
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 0:48 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]
ubuntu 10.10 will most likely ship with 2.6.34, if not 2.6.33 -
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 9:31 UTC (Thu) by yossarianuk (guest, #63191) [Link]
Arch Linux will have it soon.
Fedora 13 is going to use 2.6.33 I believe also.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 12:58 UTC (Thu) by ejmarkow (guest, #56170) [Link]
Why even 'wait' for any distro to have the latest Linux Kernel 2.6.33 in their repositories? Just go to kernel.org, download it, and compile it yourself. That's what I've done this morning. I'm using Arch Linux as well but I never wait for the kernel to be released in their repository, mainly the reason being, it's a vanilla kernel, not customized (etc. CPU, SMP...).
If you need assitance in customizing and compiling the Linux Kernel, you can use my tutorial at:
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 13:38 UTC (Thu) by dmcguicken (subscriber, #57851) [Link]
Ubuntu users can just track the mainline ppa:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.33/
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 21:55 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
This is a very good effort to see... but... it could be better.
According to the Ubuntu wiki page these kernel builds do not work out of the box with the kerneloops facility as shipped with Ubuntu nor do they work with Ubuntu's distribution specific reporting tools. Why Ubuntu needed to break how the kerneloops client is meant to work I have no idea. In order to get kerneloops information from this mainline kernels back to kerneloops.org ubuntu users running these kernels need to modify their kerneloops client configs via the steps outlined here:
-jef
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 19:18 UTC (Thu) by adobriyan (guest, #30858) [Link]
> http://ejmarkow.byethost8.com/linux_kernel.html
You'd better not advertise bulding kernel as root
Also kernel itself and modules are built just fine altogether.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 27, 2010 1:24 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
This tutorial is quite bad indeed.
Major distributions provide decent documentation for the powerful and flexible "framework" they respectively use to compile and package kernels. At least for Debian, I know from experience that compiling and packaging customized kernels into .deb is not much more difficult than raw "make" and pays off very quickly.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 27, 2010 10:44 UTC (Sat) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link]
For Debian/Ubuntu, the straight-from-Linus kernel sources provide "make deb-pkg". For RedHat/Fedora/etc., you have "make rpm-pkg" and "make binrpm-pkg".
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 25, 2010 19:54 UTC (Thu) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]
Distros tend to add their own batch of patches. Sometimes some of the distro's user-space programs depend on these patches.
CFQ Posted Feb 24, 2010 22:18 UTC (Wed) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]
I wonder whether CFQ is still _extremely_ bad when used in combination with software RAID (especially during RAID-5 resync).
CFQ and software RAID Posted Feb 25, 2010 11:26 UTC (Thu) by abacus (subscriber, #49001) [Link]
If you can reproduce this with 2.6.33, please file this as a kernel bug. I'm sure that Jens will have a look at it.
Ubuntu 10.04 Posted Feb 24, 2010 22:41 UTC (Wed) by cma (subscriber, #49905) [Link] Cool! None of this feature (besides a back-port of Nouveau) will be on next Ubuntu's release. Grrrrr... :_(
Ubuntu 10.04 Posted Feb 24, 2010 23:18 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
Canonical might do the work to cherrypick some features as backports for update kernels to the LTS release based on customer demand.
Isn't that part of the service a support contract with Canonical buys you? Would any current Canonical service customer like to to comment?
-jef
Ubuntu 10.04 Posted Feb 25, 2010 0:19 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]
I really don't think there will be much backporting tbh. Although trim support for SSDs is pretty crucial if you run Ubuntu on a SSD.(Nouveau is not)
All Ubuntu members are LWN subcribers .. so someone will know.
Ubuntu 10.04 Posted Feb 25, 2010 0:22 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
I would think trim would be something specifically that an OEM partner like Dell would pay Canonical to backport into an OEM specific kernel. Canonical still does provide an OEM specific repository for Dell right?
-jef
Ubuntu 10.04 Posted Feb 26, 2010 5:35 UTC (Fri) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Sort of, Dell has their own ppa.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 26, 2010 14:12 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]
During the last few weeks FreeBSD got HAST (something alike DRBD) and TRIM support for SATA. Funny coincidency.
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Feb 27, 2010 14:30 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The 'funny coincidency' is simply that devices which can usefully use
these capabilities (rather than claiming to and then not doing so, or doing worse than when TRIM was not specified) are finally available, or on the verge of being available.
OSes including support for hardware only when it exists is not much of a
(The DRBD thing, well, there've been ways of doing what DRBD does in both
The 2.6.33 kernel is out Posted Mar 1, 2010 15:53 UTC (Mon) by mangoo (guest, #32602) [Link]
Too bad FreeBSD's HAST only have a small subset of DRBD features.
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