LWN: Comments on "Five new stable kernels"

Five new stable kernels

NTU — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:35:44 +0000

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

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Wol — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:10:39 +0000

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

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tsdgeos — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 17:41:04 +0000

No because kernel 4.20.13 worked fine here

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jg71 — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:05:08 +0000

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

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zdzichu — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:37:12 +0000

Isn't that a duplicate of bug in Xorg itself? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109806#c24

"Not a bug in the kernel, xorg's modesetting driver needs to set all connectors/crtc's directly when using atomic. The legacy path disabled crtc B for you if you stole all its connectors for a different crtc. In the atomic case you need to disable it yourself.

This is a bug in x.org's modesetting driver."

Xorg is slowly rotting away in Wayland's world.

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tsdgeos — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:02:38 +0000

Sadly the regression that makes Linux 5.0 give a black screen for a whole class of laptops hasn't been fixed yet :(

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109959

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alanjwylie — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:20:26 +0000

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".

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nivedita76 — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:12:36 +0000

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.

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unixbhaskar — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:54:48 +0000

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.

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alanjwylie — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:27:55 +0000

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