status report - grml 0.3-3
Develrelease grml 0.3-3 is available for grml-developers and beta-testers since monday. In the last few days I fixed the reported bugs. I think I’ll drop vesafb-tng because there have been more problems than benefits with it. Now I’m working on improving the bootup sequence, checking bootoptions and some more misc stuff.
grml-kernel: another update
Another update of kernel 2.6.11-grml. Tobias Klauser and me applied some additional patches from kernel-source-2.6.11 by Debian:
1900_lowmem-reserve-oops.patch
2900_alps-tapping.patch
4100_skge-0.6.patch
4300_2.6.11-rc3-udm2.patch
4305_dm-bbr.patch
4900_speakup-20050303.patch
aml_method_exec_hack.patch
drivers-add-scsi_changer.patch
drivers-ide-dma-blacklist-toshiba.patch
drivers-media-video-v4l-mpeg-support.patch
fs-asfs-2.patch
iteraid.patch
linux-2.6.11-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch
orinoco-2.6.11-rfmon-dragorn-1.diff
patch-2.6.11.6
reiser4.allinone
squashfs2.1-patch
tty-locking-fixes9.patch
vesafb-tng-0.9-rc6-2.6.11-rc1.patch
The kernel and several modules are available online. Please report any problems you notice!
april joke 2005
Just for the archive: of course the last entry (“grml provides XPDE”) was an Aprils fools joke. Sorry for that but I couldn’t resist. :-)
German readers should take a look at the symlink.ch-article. ;-)
grml provides XPDE
I just installed XPDE in the grml-chroot:
It’s awfull rocking! There is not enough place on the grml-ISO so I deleted all the TeX-stuff on grml. Sorry for that, guys - but grml 0.4 will provide XPDE!
grml running with vesafb-tng
I patched the grml-kernel (2.6.11-grml) with vesafb-tng:
grml@grml ~ % fbset -i
mode "1024x768-60"
# D: 65.003 MHz, H: 48.365 kHz, V: 60.006 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 1536 16
timings 15384 160 24 29 3 136 6
rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : VESA VGA
Address : 0xe9000000
Size : 3145728
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 0
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 2048
Accelerator : No
grml@grml ~ %
I’ll do some more testing, if everything works fine the next devel-release will include the vesafb-tng-stuff.
New team member: Tobias Klauser
I proudly present another contributor in the grml-team: Tobias Klauser. Tobias is helping me especially at the udev- and hotplug-stuff in grml. Welcome in the team, Tobias!
grml and madwifi
Thanks to beta-tester Jürgen ‘Stormchild’ Oesterle who reported that grml lacks of madwifi-support. I just added the necessary stuff:
grml@grml ~ % locate ath_pci
/lib/modules/2.6.11-grml/kernel/drivers/net/ath_pci.ko
grml@grml ~ % dpkg --get-selections|grep madwifi
madwifi install
madwifi-module-2.6.11-grml install
madwifi-tools install
grml running xorg
grml@grml ~ % xdpyinfo| head -5
name of display: :7.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number: 60802000
X.Org version: 6.8.2
grml@grml ~ %
grml-kernel with grml-logo
Elimar Riesebieter contributed a grml-logo for the grml-kernel (thanks!):
I also updated the patch-list:
1900_lowmem-reserve-oops.patch
2900_alps-tapping.patch
4100_skge-0.6.patch
4300_2.6.11-rc3-udm2.patch
4305_dm-bbr.patch
4900_speakup-20050303.patch
aml_method_exec_hack.patch
iteraid.patch
linux-2.6.11-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch
orinoco-2.6.11-rfmon-dragorn-1.diff
patch-2.6.11.5
reiser4.allinone
squashfs2.1-patch
grml beta-testers
I just started the beta-tester subproject of grml. Every 2-3 weeks I’ll provide a current devel-snapshot to grml-developers and beta-testers so I get feedback from people using different software and hardware than me. If you think you could help the grml-team you are welcomed to join the grml beta-testers.
grml-developers on chemnitzer linuxtag 2005
I nearly forgot to mention the developer-meeting at beginning of march 2005. Several grml-developers have been on Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2005. Some us of met each other for the first time in reallife. :-)
finished devel-release 0.3-2
As I mentioned on grml-devel I’ve put a devel-release online today. It uses 2.6.11-grml with full unionfs-support. I’ve had some problems with unionfs (‘cp skipping file … as it was replaced while being copied’) but could fix this via using a current snapshot. In the next few days I’ll implement the missing stuff in grml-x, do some more quality assurance and work on the installer (grml2hd) with Jimmy.
unionfs working on grml; extra modules for 2.6.11-grml available
I now have a grml-ISO running with unionfs, now it’s possible to run ‘apt-get install foobar’ when running from CD. :-)
I had to use some hacks (thanks to the debug-bootparam ;-)) to get unionfs working. But it shouldn’t be that much work to make it more elegant and working smooth. ;-) If I can handle it a devel-release might be available at the weekend.
I also did some work on the extra-modules, most of them are available already. Take a look at the kernel-devel-webpage for some more information.
grml-ISO running with 2.6.11-grml
grml@grml ~ % grml-version
0.3-1 Release Codename Hustenstopper [2005-03-14]
grml@grml ~ % uname -a
Linux grml 2.6.11-grml #1 SMP Sun Mar 13 17:51:07 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
grml@grml ~ %
Works like a charme so far. Now I’ll work on integration of the missing extra-modules (ipw, loop-aes, ndiswrapper,..).
kernel 2.6.11-grml
In the last few days I’ve been busy working on kernel 2.6.11-grml. A webpage for development on 2.6.11-grml is available online. Please notice that the kernel is still under development but the core stuff has been integrated already. I would be happy to receive feedback.