Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released 312
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."
Re:someone tell nvidia! (Score:4, Interesting)
Which reminds me, when is Linus going to leave the 2.6x tree alone so we don't have to worry about so much broken shit all the time? Imagine if Windows changed it's kernel a couple times a year and broke the video drivers each time. People would bitch endlessly, but I guess as Linux users, we just have to put up with it.
what it is (Score:5, Interesting)
You can use Infiniband as a LAN, for storage, or maybe for within a box. You could say that Infiniband starts where Hypertransport leaves off.
For the short-haul usage, Infiniband is kind of big in terms of chip real estate. You can't cram it into a corner of a little FPGA like you can with RapidIO. For the long-haul usage, 1 gig or 10 gig Ethernet might be a better choice.
Note that Intel, originally the primary sponsor behind Infiniband, no longer gives a damn. But hey, if you have money to burn...
Re:Reiser4 (Score:4, Interesting)
Still no PATA Support? (Score:2, Interesting)
This is frustrating. I had purchased an Ultra ATA Hard disk drive (which came bundled with a Serial/Parallel ATA controller), and I had it working fine under SUSE Linux 9.0. What I didn't realize at the time was, Promise made proprietary drivers for SuSE Linux, and no other distro.
I have wanted to switch over to Fedora Linux for some time now, but although it is able to detect my SATA card and load drivers for it just fine, It does not recognise the PATA connector, and does not locate my hard drive, as a result.
There does appear to be a patch [seclists.org] available for this, but it is still officially "in development", and I am concerned that it will not make it into the mainstream kernel in time now for Fedora Core 4 to be able to recognize my hard drive, and install to it.
This is so frustrating. What is the holdup? PATA support appears to have been discussed for almost a year now [iu.edu] and it is still not in the kernel. There appear to be a lot of Ultra ATA hard disks on the market; I can't be the only one encountering the frustration of not being able to install a modern version of Linux due to lack of driver support.
thinkpad? (Score:3, Interesting)
then again, X goofs up for me with the bios 'hybernation' feature too. though I think that's independent, as it still "works" - just with screen garbage on resume.
Re:someone tell nvidia! (Score:3, Interesting)
This is somewhat a Good Thing, and somewhat a Bad Thing. The latter is self explained, but the Good Thing about it is that the kernel developers are free to make not only good code, but great code.
How many people bitch about Windows legacy crap? Do you think the developers over at MS wants to support all that old mess? Of course they don't, remember the win2k leak; in the code you could see all sorts of comments relating to hacks (that exact word) to prevent breaking legacy software.
It creates a mess doing that, and one of the beautiful things about free software is that developers are free to persue the best solution to any given problem or task, even if it means rewriting mayor parts of the software (in this case the kernel). In Windows they can't do that, so they're stuck with the same mistakes they made many years ago. (Talk about solid code, eh?)
In SP2 it looks like they finally gave up and decided they *had* to break something to close some huge security gaps (or whatever they were fixing). Free software (including the Linux kernel) doesn't have this disadvantage at all. Securityfixes seldomly break compatabilty, but new features sometimes do. In general, securityfixes are backported all the time, so you can safely use some old free software if a newer version breaks some compatability (given the old one is maintained ofcourse).
But if you don't need the old compatability, the road to great code and great features are ahead. The choice is yours, choose whatever suits your needs. This is a Good Thing, and a good reason to use Free software.
Re:someone tell nvidia! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:ACPI suspend? (Score:1, Interesting)
Anyone got VIA EPIA CLE266 driver to work on this? (Score:2, Interesting)
X11 driver works, but I need terminal emulation on framebuffer and also directFB should be quite a bit faster than X11.
VIA is offering source, but that source doesn't compile on 2.6.10 or 2.6.11.
It seems that there were quite some changes in fbdev in that time and I can't make that source to work with 2.6.11.
Re:psmouse.c (Score:3, Interesting)
All in all it's still a very small blemish on what is otherwise the most crap-reistant system I've ever used