Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 21:13:46 +0200 | From | Hanno Böck <> | Subject | laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 released |
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Hello,
I have started a project to create a kernel-patch containing various laptop-specific things. Especially it contains acpi, software suspend, supermount and some hardware compatibility patches.
Our goal is to create a kernel that runs all hardware found in current laptops. If you have laptop-specific patches you think that should be in laptopkernel, contact us or submit them through savannahs patch-tracker.
Full list of patches below, it can be downloaded at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/laptopkernel/
laptopkernel-2.4.21-rc4-laptop1 contains the following patches:
Patch: acpi-20030523 (www.sf.net/projects/acpi) The ACPI in current kernels is very outdated. Most laptops won't have any Powermanagement without the ACPI-Patch and some even won't boot.
Patch: swsusp 19-27 (www.sf.net/projects/swsusp) Software Suspend makes hibernation possible in linux, which is a very important feature for laptops.
Patch: agpgart from 2.4.21-rc2-ac3 (www.kernel.org) Laptops with the Centrino chipset need this for working agpgart, which is needed for hardware graphics acceleration (dri).
Patch: drm modules from 2.4.21-rc2-ac3 (www.kernel.org) This update is needed for proper working dri in XFree 4.3.
Patch: radeonfb from Benjamin Herrenschmidt (rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::benh-devel/) Radeon 9000 won't work with radeonfb found in the current kernel.
Patch: bcm440+bcm5700 driver (from Gentoo-Sources) Needed for Broadcom Network cards found in many laptops.
Patch: vivicam usb mass storage support (from Lycoris-Kernel) Needed for Vivicam 355 (working as USB mass storage).
Patch: supermount-1.2.6 (http://supermount-ng.sf.net) Supermount is a useful feature for desktop-pcs.
Patch: Optimization for pentium3/4 (trivial) Makes gcc3-optimizations for pentium3/4 possible. (Note: pentium4-optimizations should only be used with gcc 3.2.3 and above. If you have an older gcc, please use pentium3.) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |