Re: kernel 2.6.32.46 upgrade

On 2011-09-16 09:57, Gilles Espinasse wrote:

> I was alerted by recent distrib kernel upgrade (debian and ubuntu), but in
> fact they include much more than the changes from 2.6.32.45 to 46.
>
> I look at 2.6.32.46 list of changes at http://lwn.net/Articles/456780/ ,
> this is a small list of fix, probably only 5 or 6 may matter for us.
> If I recompile with 2.6.32.46 changes applied except futex: Fix regression
> with read only mappings,
> diff -ur build*/ipcop/boot/System.map-2.6* doc/System.map-2.6.32.45
> show no difference.
> (doc/System.map-2.6.32.45 is a manual copy of system.map-2.6.32-4 on a
> vanilia 1.9.20 build)
>
> With full 2.6.32.46 changes (including futex), System.map is different and
> to my understanding, that mean there is an ABI change and we would need to
> supply vmlinuz and all modules and 2.6.32-5
> I think we could include 2.6.32.46 and revert futex change (will need a
> reboot) or stay to 2.6.32.45 and wait for 47 to provide a full kernel
> update.

Let's stay with .45 and upgrade to .47 when it becomes available.


>> I only see 1 open point at the moment, the use of size/minsize in
>> logrotate config for FLASH installations. For that I'll make a decision
>> pretty soon, so 2.0 could go public next week.
>>
> There is one issue with binutils-2.21. This package is no more vailable for
> download like gdb-7.3 (there was some missing sources, package has been
> removed and a new 'a' version has been released for 2.21.1 only). So mostly
> our only choice is to upgrade to 2.21.1a (the a is only on the tar name,
> package open to binutils-2.21.1 directory).

OK, but it can wait for v2.0.1.


Olaf

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