Kernel 3.6.6 for ROSA 2012.0 / 2012.1 & Mandriva 2010 2011

[NicCo]

Kernel 3.6.6 for ROSA MARATHON 2012, ROSA Desktop 2012 (2012.1) and Mandriva 2010, MDV2011.0

Kernel 3.6 - General features
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/W ... 14690.html

Kernel 3.6.6 - Announce
http://lwn.net/Articles/522945/
http://www.linux.com/news/software/linu ... 6-released

All users of the 3.6 kernel series must upgrade.

Kernel 3.6.6 by MIB
This is prepared like the official one used for ROSA 2012 LTS MARATHON
this version is the prepared by MIB for Mandriva and ROSA development

In October you could find some differences and news also in this mainline serie,
the reason it that we are in full development mode for ROSA 2012.1:
from version 3.5.6 we will release two new flavours and also their 32bit pae versions

• kernel-nrj-laptop > It's optimized for laptop PCs, with a particular attention for cpu cooling and the battery lasting
• kernel-nrj-realtime > It's optimized to have the lowest latency and so it's better for realtime apps like jackd, ecc...

Changelog
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... eLog-3.6.6

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* Mon Nov 05 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.6-1
+ update to 3.6.6-1
- drop FX01_fs-ext4-fix-unjournaled-inode-bitmap-modification.patch,
- because that's already inside patch-3.6.6.bz2
- modify configuration for server flavour to DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Nov 02 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.5-2
+ update to 3.6.5-2
- drop FX01_fix-serious-progressive-ext4-data-corruption-bug.patch
- add FX01_fs-ext4-fix-unjournaled-inode-bitmap-modification.patch
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Wed Oct 31 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.5-1
+ update to 3.6.5-1 (98 fixes all over)
- some fixes to the description text on all kernel flavours and source
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Tue Oct 30 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.5-1-0-rc1
+ update to 3.6.5-0-rc1
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Tue Oct 30 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.4-2
+ update to 3.6.4-2
- modify default .configs to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Sun Oct 28 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.4-1
+ update to 3.6.4-1
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Oct 26 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.4-rc1
+ update to 3.6.4-rc1
+ rc release that should fix this > https://lwn.net/Articles/521022/
- added FX01-fix-serious-progressive-ext4-data-corruption-bug.patch
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Mon Oct 22 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.3-1
+ update to 3.6.3 (85 fixes all over)
- add OverlayFS 
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Sat Oct 13 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.2-1
+ update to 3.6.2 (135 fixes all over)
- now CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND is the predefined for -laptop and -netbook
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Oct 12 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.1-1
+ update to 3.6.1 
- first public attempt with new kernel 3.6 serie
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fri Oct 2 2012 Nicolo' Costanza <[email protected]> 3.6.0-1
+ new kernel 3.6.0
- first private attempt with new kernel 3.6 serie
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- Kernel 3.6 for mdv 2010.2, 2011.0, cooker, rosa.lts2012.0, rosa2012.1
- MIB (Mandriva International Backports) - http://mib.pianetalinux.org/
- This is -1 (mainline serie), with official kernel sources and addons,
- instead (-69) will be used for development and experimental flavours
- Yin & Yang (69) release - a very complete but experimental flavours...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Availability
Builds in progress...

Builds
rpms for 2011 and 2012 2012.1 are clean build in ABF, rpms for 2010 are built in personal VM 2010.2

Testing status:
in Mandriva 2010.2 and ROSA 2012.1, x64 and x32, it install, works and performs nice

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utente ~ $ uname -a && cat /etc/product.id
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.6-nrj-desktop-1mib #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 06 09:59:27 CEST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
vendor=Mandriva,distribution=Mandriva Linux,type=Basic,version=2010.2,branch=Official,release=1,arch=x86_64,product=Powerpack

DOWNLOAD:

IMPORTANT, READ!

• New path of the Kernel folders for Mandriva and ROSA
  General INFO about the new kernel paths and also about the new proprietary kernel drivers
• Before downloading and installing any kernel 3.6.6 flavour, you need to install the Required microcode firmware!
  Microcode firmwares for cpu AMD / INTEL updates
  With the proper cpu microcode enabled you can obtain a more reliability of you system, especially indespensable in server area, so when your cpu has a defect, kernel will found the best work-around to avoid slowdowns, or dangerous oops that could harm till to freeze your OS...
• Notice for the users of MDV 2011!
  Some problems could still occour in Mandriva 2011 by dracut remaining problems with installation and update
  these problems if / when happen are not our fault, because aren't related to the kernel contents or packaging...
  Once I succeeded to solve this ugly problem, installing the "dracut" version from RM2012 repositories into 2011

ROSA 2012.1 (rosa-devel) - 64bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

ROSA 2012.1 (rosa-devel) - 32bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

ROSA 2012 LTS - 64bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

ROSA 2012 LTS - 32bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

Mandriva 2011.0 - 64bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

Mandriva 2011.0 - 32bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/kerne ... n/release/

Mandriva 2010.2 - 64bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/2010.2/ ... nels/3.6.6

Mandriva 2010.2 - 32bit - Click link below to see if already / still available (*)
http://mib.pianetalinux.org/MIB/2010.2/ ... nels/3.6.6

(*) about our Availability notice, the phrase could have different meanings
"already" means we publish Topics when ABF started building our projects, it may need few hours
"still" means the above links are still valid until the project is recent, not obsoleted / then replaced...

DON'T INSTALL VMWARE products with Kernel > 3.4, otherwise the PC freezes and even the boot...
You must boot with a Kernel less than 3.5 (example 3.4.11), then patch vmware with the 3.5 patch (working also for 3.6)
after the patch, you can boot every kernel 3.5 and 3.6

Here VMWare with the tested and working 3.5 (It has been tested also for kernel 3.6)

bye, NicCo

[Alexander83]

Works fine! Thanks NicCo!

[Alex-G]

Ho un netbook con ATOM: che differenze ci sonotra il kernel netbook e il netbook-atom?

attualmente per mdv2010.2 c'è solo il 3.6.5, mi conviene mettere il 3.6.5QL netbook o il
kernel-nrj-netbook-atom-3.6.5
oppure il
kernel-nrjQL-netbook-3.6.5 ?

Grazie

[NicCo]

Ho un netbook con ATOM: che differenze ci sonotra il kernel netbook e il netbook-atom?

Devi operare cosi:

1> Controlla se la sigla della tua cpu ATOM supporta le estensioni 64
se la risposta è affermativa, è meglio installare una distro 64bit e usare un kernel 64bit

esempio, cerca su google, scopri che D425 è un 64bit,
quindi potresti usare una distro 64bit, ma anche 32bit

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atom d425 spec

se invece cerchi atom 270, scopri che la cpu non supporta 64bit,
quindi puoi solo installare e utilzzare un sistema operativo 32bit

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atom 270 spec

2> Se la tua cpu supportasse solo il 32bit, non hai scelta, allora sicuramente
avrai già installato la distro 32, perchè non avresti potuto fare diversamente...

per controllare che versione hai, basta su Konsole usare il comando arch

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arch

Se tu parli di -atom o core2, sono quelli ottimizzati per le cpu solo 32bit
perchè i kernel 64bit, hanno la compatibilita emt64 e non necessitano di
ulteriori ottimizzazioni

per una distro 32bit ho preparato diversi kernel per focalizzare meglio
la versione, -atom si differenzia per avere il cflags della cpu per l'atom
quindi quesi kernel funzionano solo su -atom e ne sfruttano al meglio
le caratteristiche e le prestazioni!

Poi le -pae hanno il supporto per la memoria estesa, solo quando questa
supera i 3G, esempio se hai 4 giga, meglio usare un kernel -atom-pae.


nrj or nrjQL - leggi meglio tutto quanto abbiamo già scritto sul MIB...

I kernel QL sono piu avanzati, utilizzando alcune tecnologie fresche ma
alquanto sperimentali, quindi in rari casi potrebbero essere meno testati
e stabili, ma a volte risultano invece perfino piu stabili...

l'unica cosa sicura. è che i QL rendono i PC piu rapidi e più reattivi,
sia a caricare da HD, che a switchare tra un applicativo all'altro, nel
campo multimediale dovrebbero offrire maggiori soddisfazioni...

Certo comunque è il fatto che puoi anche installarli entrambi e provarli:
Constata tu stesso, quali si comporta meglio per il tuo PC e i tuoi gusti!


Ciao, NicCo