Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux

The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for Arch Linux systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Kbuild

[ptr1337]

Really good to see, and makes it easy to use the unstripped vmlinux.

In the future, it should be also possible to just use pacman's debug function, since fixes got added to handle the stripping of the vmlinux and generating the debug package.

[nurgle]

By the way: all my Arch machines still haven't received the 6.11 kernel update. Is it normal that the update takes so long?

[ptr1337]

By the way: all my Arch machines still haven't received the 6.11 kernel update. Is it normal that the update takes so long?

I dont know exactly the reason, why its not pushed yet, but there are some outstanding issues related to SimpleFB as well as on NVIDIA fbdev is broken.
Ive sent a PR related to NVIDIA, but I think it will be delayed till 6.11.1 is out and then pushed to stable

[Anux]

Out of curiosity, does pacman -Suuy anything different then -Suy ?

[ptr1337]

Out of curiosity, does pacman -Suuy anything different then -Suy ?

-Syu does update the system, as normal.
-Syuu does bring the complete system to repo state, for example if you had a newer pkg then the repo, or equal, it will be downgraded.

[lumks]

Hey ptr1337 just here to say congratulations for the promotion

[ptr1337]

Hey ptr1337 just here to say congratulations for the promotion

Hey!
Thanks, really glad that everything worked fine and looking forward about the future contributions and work on this great distribution.

[skeevy420]

Out of curiosity, does pacman -Suuy anything different then -Suy ?

I use it when upstream downgrades a package; when I do a -Syu that results in that upstream has an older version warning and it's about a repo package.

[leigh123linux]

I dont know exactly the reason, why its not pushed yet, but there are some outstanding issues related to SimpleFB as well as on NVIDIA fbdev is broken.
Ive sent a PR related to NVIDIA, but I think it will be delayed till 6.11.1 is out and then pushed to stable

I submitted a PR weeks ago to address the nvidia fbdev issue https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-k...dules/pull/692
It also applies to the closed driver source.