Linux 4.17-rc3 Released As Another "Pretty Normal" Weekly Test Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.17-rc3 Released As Another "Pretty Normal" Weekly Test Release

Linus Torvalds announced just now the latest installment of the "Fearless Coyote"... The Linux 4.17-rc3 kernel is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.17-rc3-Released

[xiando]

good news: some amdgpu fixes since rc2. bad news: suspend/resume still doesn't work on 2400G.

Good job Michael on bringing this news 10 minutes after Linus tagged git. This site's got the Linux news updates posted pretty darn quick for a one man operation, looking at the first page you'd think it's some major site with a staff of 100 journalists.

[tildearrow]

I wonder what will be the next LTS kernel version.

[xiando]

Linux 5.0 will probably be the LTS version. And 4.17 could be released as 5.0. But then again we could see 4.40 before 5.0.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.1/06654.html

we've passed the six
million git objects mark, and that is reason enough to call the next
kernel 5.0. Except I probably won't, because I don't want to be too
predictable. The version numbers are meaningless, which should mean
that they don't even follow silly numerological rules - even if v3.0
and v4.0 happened to be at the 2M and 4M mark respectively.

[dungeon]

I wonder what will be the next LTS kernel version.

Likely 4.19 or 5.0 Usually GKH picks whatever comes at the end of the year (of course he also posts his prediction during summer and that is usually last kernel of a year), even PlayStation is best selled... if not everything, during that time

Kind of, from back to school up to the end of year are most interesting times, stronKest quartal+ you know

[shmerl]

Are these still happening in 4.17-rc3?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106194

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199505

[xiando]

Are these still happening in 4.17-rc3?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106194

I can absolutely positively confirm that freedesktop bug 106194 is totally NOT fixed in 4.17rc3. I get this if the displays go to sleep by power-saving mode, the "kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c" is still present.

I suspect that this TOTAL SCANDAL is related to why my 2400G can't wake up from suspend correctly in 4.17rc3.

As for https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/ - which of those dozen branches would be worth trying?

[shmerl]

Mainline kernels do have a partially implemented and buggy amdgpu driver.

How did such buggy result even pass some basic QA? It absolutely breaks normal desktop experience.

[shmerl]

AMD throws random patches to the mainline kernel

Don't they test the result first?

[gukin]

I'm guessing that 2400g is a new critter that just "changes things". I'm finally drinking the kool aid, my 2400G build is being delivered 5/1/2018 and I'll get to experience first hand the frustrations that have dogged the rest of the early adopters of Raven Ridge since February. I was an early adopter of the 7850K chip and had to use the maligned fglrx kernel module until radeon and amdgpu caught up and made it irrelevant; that took several years. I suspect with all the attention paid to AMDGPU that it will be less than "several years" before Raven Ridge is up to snuff; I hope.