Re: 2.6.25 Issues

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/30/08 10:02, David Baron wrote:
> > 1. All those section mismatches! This is all over google for the 
> > release candidates but still around as of .8. Seem not to have any 
> > effect, the thing boots OK, but ....
> >
> > 2. Hal on startup gets an invalid op/code busy from the IDE, resets 
> > IDE canceling DMA and other enabled functions. These can be restored 
> > using hdparm but eventually, unreadable sectors occur and the file 
> > system is damaged. There may, in fact, be problems with the drive 
> > involved, but these problems rarely if ever occur in 2.6.23.
>
> It's either the hardware or the chipset, because the nvidia MCP55 
> chipset with sata_nv and jmicron drivers havebeen working perfectly for 
> me so far.
>
> > I think   2.6.25 is too dangerous to use at this point.
>
> Add this to your sources.list and build a 2.6.26 kernel:
>
> deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main

Did you? I built a 2.6.26 from kernel.org.
Two items:
1. the NVidia driver 96.43-07 applies without having to patch anything
2. the VMware vmserver 1.0.6 needs update117c and then starting vmware 
gets an out-of-memory error.

Beyond that I am of the opinion that 2.6.26 (and 2.6.25) is stickier 
than 2.6.24, the last kernel that the -ck patch could be applied to.

Hugo