Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released

[jgionet]

FYI

saw this on /. this morning.

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 02, @09:21AM
from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
Xpilot writes "Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of the newest Linux kernel release, 2.6.11. The newest addition to Linux that's stirring up some excitement is the inclusion of Infiniband support. You can get it from the usual mirrors at http://kernel.org/mirrors."

[ghaefb]

That's good to know, thanks !
Waiting for FC3 2.6.11 kernel update release... :)

[cardinal II]

Interesting, I thought I'd post part of Wiki's definition on 'InfiniBand' InfiniBand is a high-speed serial computer bus, intended for both internal and external connections. It is the result of merging two competing designs, Future I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, with Next Generation I/O (ngio), developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. For a short time before the group came up with a new name, InfiniBand was called System I/O. Intel has since refocused its attention on a quasi-alternative, PCI Express, casting some doubt over the future of InfiniBand.

InfiniBand uses a bidirectional serial bus for low cost and low latency. Nevertheless it is very fast, 10Gbps in both directions. InfiniBand uses a switched fabric topology so several devices can share the network at the same time (as opposed to a bus topology). Data is transmitted in packets, that taken together form a message. A message can be a direct memory access read or write operation, a channel send or receive, a transaction-based operation (that can be reversed), or a multicast transmission.

I got that link from the Slashdot article.

[ht990332]

Will FC3 users be updated with official 2.6.11 packages?

[t3gah]

Does the Linux 2.6.11 radeon driver outmode the new ATI 8.10.19 driver?

[rudi]

After installing 2.6.11, I can't boot anymore. System boot stops at
Starting udev:

Nothing after that. SO I'm back booting 2.6.10 again ...
rudi (dual opteron system)

[crackers]

Thread split with message posted to appropriate forum (Installation).

[v8s10blazer]

thats pretty neat... but when will motherboards start supporting this new IO... MAN i bet computers will be a lot faster overall with that stuff

[linux juggler]

now they release the 2.6.11.2 in 9/03/2005 ...

in the kernel site not in FC >>>

[t3gah]

Thread split with message posted to appropriate forum (Installation).News headlines from fedoraforum.org should always be locked threads and be in a forum section like "NEWS" and then, etc.

[james_in_denver]

LOL,

2.6.11.2, fresh compile, (using "make oldconfig" from my 2.6.10 install) won't boot.

Looks like it might have killed grub as well.

Writing this from "win-XP".

(never knew that using my FC3 disk #1 as a coaster for my diet coke would eat away the reflective coating!!!!!!!!!!, downloading and re-burning FC3 disk 1 as i write!)

[cardinal II]

Hmm, what would you of done if you didn't have XP installed? ;)

Will we be seeing this kernel on a FC3 depo any time soon?

[crackers]

Given the timelines, we might see it in FC4. I wouldn't wager either way, actually.

[Evert]

i am proud to announce that i have succesfully build an RPM of kernel 2.6.11

You may find it here:
http://www.fedora-nieuws.nl/kernel.html

Evert

[marko]

Hmm, what would you of done if you didn't have XP installed? ;)

Will we be seeing this kernel on a FC3 depo any time soon?

What you're supposed to do is compile the new kernel but keep the old kernel referenced in grub. Then if the new one has a problem then you have the option to fall back to the old one.


Mark

[nekron]

Does the Linux 2.6.11 radeon driver outmode the new ATI 8.10.19 driver?
I tried to compile the 8.9.10 ATI drivers against 2.6.11, but didnt succeed ( lots of errors ). Then I patched the ATI driver with two patches I found on rage3d.com. Now the driver compiles fine, however I cant load the module. This is what I get:

Dmesg shows...
**ERROR** Unable to the open some already present DRM kernel module

and modprobe fglrx shows...
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx ... : Operation not permitted.

I did check that radeon module is not loaded as a module. So I dont get why the module doesnt work?

[-ObI-]

Hello
the Hardware SPEC is as follows:
Athlonmobile 64 3Ghz
Ati 9600 (m10)
1GB 333Mhz RAM

I tried 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 for x86_64 and fglrx64_6_8_0-8.12.10-1.x86_64.rpm.
Please see the compile log, which is attached as output.txt for further input.

All i can say atm, that it didnt compile couse of 2 errors which i am not able to debug
:-(

(... and yes i had luck with the 2.6.10_770 kernel and fglrx64_6_8_0-8.10.19-1.x86_64.rpm
(the only thing i had to change was the agpgart set to use the kernel, not the one that comes
with fglrx)
---> in plain english the output of fglrxinfo showed up :
direct rendering: yes
and also glxgears showed up with an expectable amount of fps)

hope one is able to help