When will be the year of GNU/Linux for smartphones? Android is not it. I wish we could install distros in a smartphone as easy as it is in desktop
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Linux 6.11 Released
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Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#626.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
6.10 broke my AMD 5700XT eGPU setup. Had to downgrade to 6.9
After I upgraded to a 7900XT it worked again.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#636.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
How does Linux handle testing? They don't seem to have a CI system as far as I know. Presumably there's no big lab with automated testing on real hardware. Does anyone know how releases are tested?
Several companies (including mine, Toradex) have setup board farms to deal with Kernel regressions and bugs during the `-rc` window, ie, the kernel that is going to be released is heavily tested.
https://kernelci.org/ is a big one, Linaro has theirs https://lkft.linaro.org/, Intel has multiple farms, Collabora works relentlessly with GitLab integration https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/patc......
The kernel is very much tested before a release with gigantic automated labs on real hardware.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#646.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
Is that just AMD? On my thinkpad X270 playing videos in Firefox is just a mess. All sorts of problems while Chromium is just fine. It's also fine on a copy of my system that I run on a thinkcentre tiny.
I do believe Chromium still has to be patched to support HW decode via vaapi, while recent Firefoxen turn it on out of the box. So it's likely that Chromium is using software rendering, bypassing any driver-related bugs.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#65I’m just at awe to see Torvalds still publishing the release notes for Linux kernel.
Wonder what kind of succession is in place. I'd assume there's a legal framework around it to ensure continuity with something so important.
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#66When will be the year of GNU/Linux for smartphones? Android is not it. I wish we could install distros in a smartphone as easy as it is in desktop
Nobody wants it outside of a tiny hobbyist segment.
Nobody understands it outside of a tiny hobbyist segment, because there is no "definitive" Linux. No two "Linux" look the same.
The year of the Linux desktop will be when there's an OS like Android or macOS that is running Linux but the only way you would tell is by running uname.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#676.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
The past few releases were more problematic for me yeah. It's super anecdotal since I never used Linux before the v5.xx kernels but in comparison to those yes it's a bit less stable.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#68Bets for 6.12: sched_ext, PREEMPT_RT anyone?
PREEMPT_RT would be a boon for audio/video work, hope it finally goes in. Not everyone who needs it knows they need it, let alone how to compile it, and having it in-tree would massively simplify the process for distros to [re-]package a proper RT kernel.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#696.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
That's why I stick with Debian.
Re: Linux 6.11 Released
#706.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I'm on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode. Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a…
amdgpu is shit for me, my friend. Funny story: my headless server with a small Navi 1 workstation card (repurposed) couldn't be SSH'd into last week. Went and plugged in a monitor, rebooted, and the framebuffer got stuck during stage 1 while fsck'ing my disk. OK, I think to myself, it's probably taking a while to fsck after N boots, happens once every few months. Doesn't change for 48 hours. Turns out my machine had just run out its DHCP lease, so it had a new IP and I didn't realize it, which is why I couldn't log in. So I log in, and..
What was wrong? What actually happened was that on bootup, the amdgpu driver would panic and fault during boot exactly when fsck was happening, and the framebuffer would be stuck forever. So it just looked like a filesystem issue but in reality my graphics output was merely fubar; the system itself was otherwise fine tnough.
This is reliable and reproducible for me; it always faults at almost the exact same spot at boot every time, for this kernel version at least. In reality amdgpu has been unreliable for me for 5+ releases at this point on a card less than like 7 years old.
Really considering moving over to a small cheap nvidia card and just running Nouveau instead. At least then I might have a reliable framebuffer.