This is the Kernel Team Meeting, started on 10 September 2007, 15H00 - 16H00 ( Etc/GMT).

Attendance

• BenC
• rtg
• amitk_
• zul

Agenda

• Team status
• Distro-qa bugs
• Open discussion

Minutes

• Community Patches.
  • BenC noted that the can start once kyle is finished with the repo.
• libata patches from Edward Amsden.

  • rtg wanted to know if these patches were duplicates for the ICH8 stuff that just went in. BenC & AmitK_ confirmed that it wasn't duplicates.

Any Other Business

• None reported.

IRC Logs

05:01   zul     umm..
05:01   BenC    I'm trying to retrieve the rest of the team :)
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05:03   zul     ok
05:03   Hobbsee BenC: offer coffee
05:04   BenC    might take beer
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05:05   Hobbsee BenC: or beer.  beer is good too, it seems.
05:05   elkbuntu        add pizza to the offer and you're likely to have a winner
05:05   Hobbsee mmm...pizza...
05:05   Hobbsee BAD ELKBUNTU!
05:06   BenC    Well I know rtg isn't going to be here
05:06   elkbuntu        caffeinated beer (surely america has this, right?) and pizza
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05:06   BenC    kyle left ottowa for cambridge last night
05:06   BenC    so just waiting on amitk
05:07   BenC    I, nm, he's here :)
05:07   amitk   Sorry..i am already here
05:07   elkbuntu        i win!
05:07   amitk   a few minutes late
05:07   BenC    Ok, welcome to the kernel team meeting
05:07   BenC    Meeting info (past and present) is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting
05:08   BenC    We'll start of with team status
05:08   BenC    pkl_: You're first up in reverse alpha order
05:10   BenC    pkl_: What's your current work load right now?
05:10   pkl_    working on some kernel flavours for Gutsy.
05:10   pkl_    some bug work and that's more or less been it.
05:11   BenC    pkl_: Do you know the status of ntfs-write-support for userspace side?
05:12   pkl_    No, I believe it should be in place now.
05:12   pkl_    but that's a guess.
05:12   BenC    Ok, can you check up on it, just to make sure someone isn't secretly blocking on some unknown issue
05:12   pkl_    Yeah, I'll check with Colin,
05:13   BenC    ok, thanks
05:13   BenC    what's your expected work for the next couple of weeks, other than the normal bugs+fixes?
05:14   pkl_    Um, bug fixing is probably going to be the main focus.
05:14   pkl_    I anticipate putting AUFS into the kernel, and testing Unionfs 2.1 (that Kyle added) with liveCDS
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05:14   BenC    yeah...the unionfs seems to be high prio
05:15   amitk   pkl_: what is AUFS used for?
05:15   pkl_    AUFS = Alternative Unionfs File System.
05:16   pkl_    It is basically a re-implemented Unionfs by a third-party, which is commonly believed not to have as many bugs or issues than Unionfs
05:16   BenC    is AUFS something you just want to add for people who want to use it...not for livecd this late in the cycle, right?
05:16   pkl_    It would probably be useful to have in the Gutsy kernel, especially as a fall back for people having problems with Unionfs.
05:17   pkl_    It's probably too risky for the livecd now :)
05:17   BenC    ok...so the unionfs 2.1 is in lum now, expected to be included and used with this next upload?
05:17   pkl_    I think so, yes.
05:18   BenC    then yeah, testing livecd with that needs to be done asap
05:18   pkl_    Kyle was having some problems with the apparmor patches and Unionfs.  But that should be resolved.
05:19   BenC    sounds like you've got plenty to work on :)
05:19   pkl_    hopefully...
05:20   BenC    amitk: so how's things been going in the mobile team?
05:21   amitk   mainly changes to the build system to decouple UME patches from core Gutsy
05:21   BenC    are all the patches for lpia/ume included now?
05:21   amitk   Far from it
05:22   BenC    what's left to include
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05:23   amitk   Let me rephrase it - All that is available is included now. But there are many things that are WIP e.g. the new upstream MMC stack to support SD/SDIO, ACPI thermal optimisations, peripheral drivers, etc.
05:24   BenC    Ah, ok
05:24   amitk   Last couple of weeks, after changing the build system, I have committed the thermal optimisation patches to UME. All a GPL driver for Marvell SD8686 SDIO WLAN chip was committed to LUM
05:24   BenC    earlier you had mentioned getting lpia arch/flavour building using the same patches, moving it to a custom-binary target
05:24   amitk   s/All/also
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05:25   amitk   that is a next step yes - Moving LPIA to use the same configuration for UME custom builds
05:25   BenC    either we need to rename one of those flavours to match the other, or add another capability to the build system to use the ume custom-binary patches so we don't have duplicated in debian/binary-custom.d/{ume,lpia}/patchset/*
05:27   amitk   BenC: agreed. I would prefer dropping UME in favour of LPIA, but since we don't yet have a complete set of packages for LPIA, I will hold back until that happens
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05:29   BenC    amitk: ok...does ubuntu-mobile expect for ume flavour to become obsolete by gutsy release?
05:29   BenC    if so, perhaps it isn't too important, knowing we'll just be ditching it in the end
05:31   amitk   BenC: yes, with a caveat - LPIA should be equivalent to current UME
05:31   BenC    userspace wise, or kernel wise?
05:32   amitk   package repository-wise
05:32   BenC    ok, that's what I figured
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05:32   BenC    Ok...anything new and exciting in the power side for general desktop users?
05:33   BenC    I imagine you haven't had much time to look at that
05:33   amitk   not yet. However there isn't much on the UME side this week. So I hope to go over the powertop recommendations to make sure Gutsy already support them.
05:34   BenC    excellent, I've been looking forward to that
05:35   amitk   that is all from my side
05:36   BenC    everything's moving along it seems
05:36   BenC    amitk: thanks
05:37   BenC    Now we need to go over the canonical-qa bugs real quick...see if we can get some resolution on them
05:37   Mithrandir      amitk: hopefully, you'll be able to drop UME in a week or two.
05:37   BenC    link is on the agenda
05:37   BenC    Mithrandir: ah, good to know, thanks
05:37   amitk   Mithrandir: \o/
05:37   BenC    one less build on i386 is always a plus
05:38   Mithrandir      that's pending us having working lpia images by then, but it's on my plan for next week, so.
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05:39   BenC    Damn, I'm not sure which of the bugs are hidden from public view...
05:39   BenC    bug #130804
05:39   ubotu   Launchpad bug 130804 in linux-source-2.6.22 "[Ubuntu Tribe3]  Cannot install by LiveCD (weybridge)" [High,Confirmed]  https://launchpad.net/bugs/130804
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05:40   BenC    That one looks like a failure to detect IDE on the weybridge
05:40   BenC    amitk: this reminds me, I have to send you a weybridge...
05:41   BenC    ACTION: Ben to test livecd on weybridge
05:41   amitk   BenC: if that would spare my laptop from compiling our kernels, it would be much appreciated :)
05:42   BenC    amitk: I'll get it out this week :)
05:43   BenC    bug #131626
05:43   ubotu   Launchpad bug 131626 in linux-source-2.6.22 "Sleep wakes up but screen is blank" [Medium,Triaged]  https://launchpad.net/bugs/131626
05:46   BenC    that seems to be a nv bug
05:46   BenC    wonder if nvidia proprietary driver fixes it
05:47   BenC    bug #131661
05:47   ubotu   Launchpad bug 131661 in linux-source-2.6.22 "Hibernate button on keyboard doesn't work on System76 Z62F" [Medium,Incomplete]  https://launchpad.net/bugs/131661
05:47   BenC    that one doesn't really sound like a kernel bug
05:52   pkern   At least fglrx suspend-to-RAM breaks with SLUB allocator activated. Which is why I am here and waiting for open discussion. ;o) Maybe that could be switched back to SLAB at least until ATI fixes that issue.
05:52   BenC    pkern: doubtful, slub fixes more things :)
05:53   BenC    ATI just needs to fix their driver
05:53   pkern   BenC: It was the only option I switched to make it work again with 2.6.22.
05:53   pkern   BenC: Of course, but in the meantime we break suspend-to-RAM with fglrx for all users of Gutsy.
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05:54   BenC    pkern: but that's not a fault of ours
05:54   BenC    slub fixed way too many things to make fglrx an exception for switching
05:55   BenC    but we can definitely look into
05:55   pkern   BenC: What did it fix? I thought it's only a speed advantage.
05:55   BenC    I wont say there's no chance of us switching back...just that it's very unlikely
05:55   BenC    pkern: turning it on exposed so many bugs that were hard to find with slab
05:56   BenC    slub has better error checking
05:56   BenC    and the speedup and reduced fragmentation is a huge advantage
05:56   BenC    we should talk with some folks at AMD/ATI to see about fixing this properly, instead of disabling slub just to accomodate it
05:57   pkern   BenC: I guess there can't be another flavour, right? There was a thread on LKML about it some time ago and all agree that it's ATI's fault, but so far there was no response. (It's listed in their inofficial bug tracker, but then I don't know who reads it.)
05:58   BenC    we don't do separate flavours just to work around a broken proprietary driver
05:58   BenC    sets a bad precedent :)
05:59   pkern   It would be really nice to see this fixed in fglrx, of course. But I don't know if suspend-to-RAM should be broken if SLUB mainly helps finding bugs easier. (Which I agree with for a development version.)
05:59   BenC    ACTION: Ben to get in touch with AMD/ATI to see about resolving the fglrx+slub+hibernate bug
05:59   pkern   BenC: Thanks (:
05:59   BenC    any other open items?
05:59   zul     yep just sponsorship for uds
06:00   BenC    pkern: thanks for bringing it up, I'll definitely see about getting it resolved
06:00   zul     since i have an expired passport ;)
06:00   BenC    zul: we're in the process of looking at who will be sponsored
06:00   zul     ok
06:01   BenC    kernel related sponsors have been submitted, but it's upper management that has final say
06:01   zul     other than that none from me
06:01   pkern   BenC: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/121653/comments/15
06:01   ubotu   Launchpad bug 121653 in linux-source-2.6.22 "[gutsy]  Suspend to Ram does not work on Z61m" [Undecided,Confirmed]
06:01   BenC    pkern: thanks
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06:02   BenC    Speaking of UDS, this is a good time to remind everyone that now's when you should start submitting blueprints for UDS
06:02   BenC    not the day UDS starts :)
06:03   BenC    So if there are any features you would like to see for gutsy+1, get to crackin
06:03   BenC    And I think that ends the meeting
06:04   BenC    Thanks everyone, and have a good week