No kernel update from Sep. 9th

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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby Hitchar » Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:42 am

6.1.10 is working fine here on my Rpi 3b+. Thanks for the new build! I'll report back if I encounter any more issues.
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby CounterPillow » Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:32 am

Btw for my rc PR I'm also keeping it updated, I just don't post in the forums a lot because all posting in the forums does is make graysky lock your threads and call you unproductive.

We're getting an rc8 this cycle, so next weekend will be another (and the last) rc release for 6.2. I'll close the PR once 6.2 proper is released, and open a new one once 6.3-rc1 drops.

It would be nice if at least PR 1969 (nice) was merged, so that people can more easily do their own builds the way I am currently doing them, which is in a clean chroot (the way you're supposed to build things, but it's broken because ALARM)
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby Mettacrawler » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:05 pm

I spent some time studying Arch Linux ARM. One of the things I found is this:
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Some other relics
https://www.activestate.com/blog/supporting-arch-linux-arm-development-team-komodo-ide/
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')019 Mike Brown, liason (sic) specialist at Arch Linux ARM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBb2YnxIp8c
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')013 A Slice of Pi - Jason Plum, Arch Linux ARM


Lynix, I should mention that I installed your linux-aarch64-6.1.10-1 successfully on my Mochabin. Prior to yesterday I was using my own PKGBUILD that I created with no intention of publishing. I didn't find your package until after I had been using mine.

My PKGBUILD was just for learning. I stripped out a bunch of stuff to make it compile faster. The first two rounds of compilation were on the Mochabin without using distcc; it took about eight hours. I got around to re-installing distcc which I had used in the past to build an armv7 kernel with virtio but that installation got washed away in the churn.

To blather even more, I started using Arch Linux ARM after I found out about the WiFi key exchange vulnerability, KRACK. I had a VyWorks docsis router with no possibility of it ever getting firmware updates. I have these reactions from time-to-time where I go from one extreme to another. In this case it was from having no updates to having the most updates. I went shopping for the new router and settled on a Marvell Clearfog Pro and very quickly switched from running the Ubuntu it came with to Arch Linux ARM. The Solidrun invoice says Dec 13, 2017 but it took nine months to be delivered from Israel.

I bought a Linksys ea6350v3 as a backup router. Along time ago I heard a joke, when someone said their car was a Jag the reply would be "what's your other car?" I figured it would be good to have a backup if there were issues with Arch Linux ARM. The Linksys has turned out to be more useful for dealing with ISP outages. During an outage I just turn on my phone hotspot, configure OpenWRT to use the hotspot WiFi as WAN and plug the Clearfog WAN port into a LAN port on the Linksys. Nothing on my LAN needs to be reconfigured including my Pi-hole.

I switched from Arch Linux ARM to Armbian on that router mostly because I think that upstream developers are dropping support for 32-bit Linux more and more over time; having up-to-date packages on arrm7 is going to be increasingly difficult.

I backed the campaign to build the Mochabin. Indigogo and Kickstarter, etc. are not about buying something, it's more like venture capital. You might end up with nothing, it's happened hundreds of thousands of times before according to articles I read. Globalscale delived despite the world being post-peak-oil which is good.

I made a YT video of the Mochabin booting Arch Linux ARM. Then I went to the library and without logging in I played my video (which was hard to find, google found it with site:youtube.com "mochabin" (verbatim mode on). I also played every other related and unrelated Marvell video and Globalscale video. Within a day a Globalscale YT channel followed my YT channel. SEO works both ways and it's fun, right?
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby lynix » Wed Feb 15, 2023 1:48 pm

So in the meantime v6.1.12 got released and I have built packages for it (on a separate branch).

I'm still hesitating to update my pull request though as I have recently gotten approval by a reviewer so maybe we can finally get this kernel upgrade accepted.

At least that's what I'm hoping for. I'll wait a couple of days and if nothing happens then I'll update my PR. v6.1.12 will most likely be the last version of the 6.1 branch as we've reached RC8 on mainline.
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby CounterPillow » Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:41 am

Any GitHub account can approve something as a reviewer, it's meaningless.
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby lynix » Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:22 am

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ny GitHub account can approve something as a reviewer, it's meaningless.

Damn, I thought the review came from someone who has the power to actually merge the PR.

Welp, so I pushed v6.1.12 and dropped a patch that caused some discussion. It's now as clean and simple as it can get.
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby CounterPillow » Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:24 pm

Well then, looks like leming responded to my efforts by blocking me from the GitHub org

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Guess that's that. What a nice way to treat outside contributors.
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby lynix » Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:28 am

So, without any reaction to the PR, they have released linux-aarch64-6.2.0-1.

Can't say I have too many positive feelings about this due to the lack of communication (or presence of ignorance when considering what happened in other PRs).

Let's hope this is not a one-shot and that we will continue to receive kernel updates. Personally I will most likely stick with my own kernel package (AUR: linux-aarch64-lts) as I prefer to run LTS kernels on uptime-sensitive devices.

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to test-drive my PR and/or give feedback. In contrast to the maintainer I really appreciate it :)
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby murple » Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:48 pm

I appreciate your work lynix - would you consider creating a repo for maintaining an LTS kernel?
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Re: No kernel update from Sep. 9th

Postby lynix » Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:19 am

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') appreciate your work lynix - would you consider creating a repo for maintaining an LTS kernel?


Sure, there you are:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[linux-aarch64-lts]
SigLevel = Optional
Server = https://github.com/lynix/linux-aarch64-lts/releases/latest/download')
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