Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 14, 2019 20:27 UTC (Thu) by alanjwylie (subscriber, #4794)
Parent article: Five new stable kernels

There's a build failure with AMD-only builds, I've seen it myself, there is also this report by Alec Ari

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/13/1113

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 15, 2019 3:54 UTC (Fri) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link] (3 responses)

Are those mandatory configuration flags to get the kernel compiled successfully?? But, why it would get not set by default?? Does it require manual intervention to set it on compile time??

It might not sound rational ...but still ..I just did compile (No VM, all in the physical partition) for 6 different distros and all of them went well.

Anyway, probably I am not able to capture the point, honestly.

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 15, 2019 9:12 UTC (Fri) by nivedita76 (subscriber, #121790) [Link]

Your question is very confusing. Not sure exactly what you were asking but that config flag is not mandatory, presumably someone introduced a bug with this release.

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 15, 2019 9:20 UTC (Fri) by alanjwylie (subscriber, #4794) [Link] (1 responses)

Most people will never see this error because 1) they are running on Intel processors, rather than AMD and 2) they have never tweaked their kernel config to disable options that aren't applicable to their use case. In particular, it involves going first to "General Setup", enabling "CONFIG_EXPERT", then going to to "Processor type and features", selecting "Supported processor vendors" and in that sub-menu disabling "Support Intel Processors".

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 17, 2019 8:10 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

ie standard fare for gentoo users and similar distros. Who are probably a sizeable minority.

Just because it's not your use case doesn't mean it won't affect a lot of people - me for example except I haven't rebuilt the distro in a long while. Hopefully I'll be rebuilding my system soon, and a rebuilt distro will come as part of that :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 16, 2019 11:05 UTC (Sat) by jg71 (guest, #67102) [Link] (1 responses)

I was about to report it myself (avid user of 4.19), so thanks are in order to Alec Ari for already doing so.

Five new stable kernels

Posted Mar 20, 2019 13:35 UTC (Wed) by NTU (guest, #131024) [Link]

You're welcome! I was afraid my report would go unnoticed.