Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753587AbZFDN4T (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:56:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752653AbZFDN4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:56:12 -0400 Received: from mx-out.daemonmail.net ([216.104.160.38]:40026 "EHLO mx-out.daemonmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751899AbZFDN4L (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:56:11 -0400 From: "Michael S. Zick" Reply-To: lkml@morethan.org To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support] Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:56:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Harald Welte , Linus Torvalds References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906040856.10512.lkml@morethan.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 36 On Tue June 2 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This is almost certainly the last -rc, and I debated even doing it. But > rather than just do 2.6.30, I decided that I'd be better off doing a last > -rc8 and then a real release probably this weekend. > > This has mostly driver and arch updates, with perhaps the intel drm/kms > and network driver changes standing out, but there's powerpc, blackfin and > arm updates too. Admittedly, the two biggest parts of the powerpc update > are a revert and a defconfig update. > > A lot of small stuff, fixing a few regressions (and at least one bugzilla > entry going back to 2.6.24). The small stuff does matter. Please test. > > Linus > Today's first 2.6.30-rc8 build for VIA NetBooks is posted. Details at: http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=7034#p7034 - - summary - - This is the kernel.org repository tag: 2.6.30-rc8 codebase ***without*** local patches; Using the same configuration as the record holding (-09149), variable speed kernel. The -09149 announcement is at: http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=7002#p7002 (Note: that build had local patches.) I have also re-posted the record holding (-09143lk), fixed speed build, see above links. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/