Add Linux 4.8-rc2 #95

Announcement for Linux 4.8-rc1 [1]: > It's been two weeks, and the merge window for 4.8 is thus closed. > > Due to travel last week, I actually still have a few pull requests > pending in my inbox that I just wanted to take another look at before > merging, but the large bulk of the merge window material has been > merged, and I wanted to make sure there aren't any new ones coming in. > > This seems to be building up to be one of the bigger releases lately, > but let's see how it all ends up. The merge window has been fairly > normal, although the patch itself looks somewhat unusual: over 20% of > the patch is documentation updates, due to conversion of the drm and > media documentation from docbook to the Sphinx doc format. There are > other doc updates, but that's the big bulk of it. > > If you ignore the documentation format change, things look fairly > regular, with about 60% of the non-documentation diffs being drivers > (gpu, networking, media, sound, etc) and about 15% being arch updates > (arm, powerpc and x86 dominate, but there's mips and s390 too). > > The rest is spread out - core networking, tooling (mainly perf), > include files, core kernel, vfs and low-level filesystems (xfs stands > out). Few areas escaped: > > 10787 files changed, 612208 insertions(+), 272098 deletions(-) > > Go out and test. The diffs and logs are too big to post, so as usual > for rc1, I'm just appending my "merge log" for a very high-level view. Announcement for Linux 4.8-rc2 [2]. While at it, select `EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP` as an alternative to the serial port to get Linux kernel messages [3]. ``` $ diff -u /boot/config-4.7.0.mx64.94 /boot/config-4.8.0-rc2.mx64.95 […] -# CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP is not set +CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP=y […] ``` [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/7/93 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/14/874 [3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt

The source has to be patched, so that it builds with Linux 4.8-rc2 [1][2]. Note, that due to the handling of the extraversion `-rc2`, this is currently put into the wrong directory, and `sudo /sbin/nvidiactl` fails. [1] http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1788 [2] https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/954279/linux/nvidia-367-35-dkms-build-errors-for-a-4-7-0-kernel/

Adapt the script to take the extra version into account, and put the modules into the correct directory. * before: /usr/share/nvidia/kernel/4.8.0.mx64.95 * after: /usr/share/nvidia/kernel/4.8.0-rc2.mx64.95 Here are some examples used for testing. ``` $ test=$(beeversion --format "%V.mx64.%r" linux-4.8_rc2-95.x86_64); if [[ $test =~ ^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)_?(.*)(\.mx64.*) ]]; then echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.0-${BASH_REMATCH[2]}${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"; fi 4.8.0-rc2.mx64.95 test=$(beeversion --format "%V.mx64.%r" linux-4.8-95.x86_64); if [[ $test =~ ^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)_?(.*)(\.mx64.*) ]]; then echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.0-${BASH_REMATCH[2]}${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"; fi 4.8.0-.mx64.95 $ test=$(beeversion --format "%V.mx64.%r" linux-4.8_rc2-95.x86_64); if [[ $test =~ ^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(_?.*)(\.mx64.*) ]]; then echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.0${BASH_REMATCH[2]}${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"; fi 4.8.0_rc2.mx64.95 $ test=$(beeversion --format "%V.mx64.%r" linux-4.8-95.x86_64); if [[ $test =~ ^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(_?.*)(\.mx64.*) ]]; then echo "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.0${BASH_REMATCH[2]}${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"; fi 4.8.0.mx64.95 ``` As you can see, it currently doesn’t work, when the package has no extra version.

Currently, Using a Linux release without an extra version, a dash is added to the directory name, breaking the script `/sbin/nvidiactl`. Fix it by composing the correct name with the *e* placeholder. Note, this requires at least bee 1.2.11, so that the format placeholder *d* is present in `beeversion`.

Add Linux 4.8-rc2 #95

Add Linux 4.8-rc2 #95

Commits on Aug 19, 2016