8.2 Kernel status update

[Jim Gettys]

The other issue it would be nice to get fixed is the jffs2 full
performance falling off the wall cliff, for which there is a patch that
the Nokia folks have deployed.  While in development we seldom run full,
running full is likely the usual state in the field.

Dave, have you had a chance to look at it?
                     - Jim

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 22:40 -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm out of town in meetings all day tommorrow so won't make it to 
> the software status meeting. From a kernel POV, the biggest bugs 
> in 8.2 AFAIK are touchpad issues (7341) and wireless suspend resume 
> issues (7303). Dilinger has a patch for the former that disables pen 
> tablet mode that will hopefuly help with a lot of the issue and I 
> believe Richard is testing it (I would do it now if I didn't have
> to jump on plane in 6 hours).  Andrey from Cozybits fixed up the 
> wifi issue and build 2097 contains the appropriate bits.
> 
> The one major change I was hopeing to get into kernel for 8.2
> is integrating intiramfs and kernel into one RPM but I think 
> the probability of getting that done in next few days is not 
> too high ATM.
> 
> ~Deepak
> 
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child