Kernel 2.6.18 beyond?

I'm using the beyond 2.6.17 kernel. Is there gonna be a 2.6.18 beyond kernel, or are the improvements in beyond already in 2.6.18 vanilla?
Should I just switch to vanilla?

superstoned wrote:
iphitus wrote:
After my break, i'm working on 2.6.19 beyond. Right now
I'll have a pre release up by the end of the day, I'll give that some testing, and it should be in the repos soon enough.
James
Great!
found this yet?
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-ck1/
found this yet? http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.19 … yond1pre1/
or even better, this?
http://iphitus.loudas.com//entries/14.html
http://archlinux.org/~james/kernel26bey … pkg.tar.gz
2.6.19-beyond1pre1, is just a short release, so I can get some testing done while I wait for a few more patches, and so I can do some thorough testing of my own.
2.6.19-beyond1 will be out shortly, and will go to the repos.
James

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while i was using kernel 2.6.19-beyond
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As you haven't been entirely clear about what you're doing, let me outline what I would do in your situation:
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- get the 2.6.17-ck1 patch tarball from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … .6.17-ck1/
- get the corresponding kernel config from cvs.archlinux.org
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I am using kernel26-beyond (currently at 2.6.19), but every time a vanilla kernel gets upgraded, I get kernel-headers upgraded also (currently at 2.6.20). I wonder if wouldn't be better if there was different kernel-headers-beyond package for kernel26-beyond kernels? I am just afraid I could have problems while compiling some programs while vanilla and beyond variants of kernel are out of sync.
I imagine this is valid for other variants of kernels as well.
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Maybe the mantainer of the beyond-patched kernel didn't see the patchset for 2.6.20 has been released 1 month ago (it isn't linked on the project homepage): http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6.20/2.6.20-beyond1/
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lucke wrote:Creator of beyond and maintainer of Arch packages is the same person.
cr7 wrote:LoL, the maintainer is the same person who develops the beyond patchset
Well... on the package page ( http://www.archlinux.org/packages/10862/ ) I read:
James Rayner
and there isn't any e-mail address to contact him (so I opened this thread). And there isn't any "I'm iphitus" writing. I couldn't know that... now I know that.
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Last edited by J_Zar (2007-04-15 11:08:03)

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