As you can read here 2.6.30 is out now. As to the whole set of changes since 2.6.29, the best place to look is probably just http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30 as usual. One thing that doesn’t seem to be mentioned here is that we’re hopefully now done with the suspend/resume irq re-architecting, and have switched to a new world order. Although I suspect lots of details will still change, of course.
If we have tested the new kernel, probably with zen patch set, we will tell you
A while ago I wanted to make my iptables firewall a bit active. During my searches I found the iptables mirror target, which takes the packet sent to your machine and returns the same packet to the machine the packet came from. Thus, let’s say someone tries to scan your machine or tries an attack he would scan his own machine or even attack his own machine. Sadly the mirror target has been dropped somewhere around linux version 2.5 for security concerns. Somewhere in the web I found sources for a 2.5 kernel version and made them work with some 2.6.
I want to share this with the community now. So you can download the modified modules sources on www.mygnu.de. To build the module, boot the kernel version you want to use the module with, and unpack the archive. Afterwards run the compile.sh script and the install.sh script.
Now you may use the mirror target in place of the reject or drop target in the INPUT, FORWARD and PREROUTING chains, like this in your firewall script:
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -j MIRROR
Beware: The use of the mirror target may have strange results, i.e. if you want to connect to the iptables protected machine, you may end up connecting to the local machine without recognizing it. It also may use much bandwith. Worst case: if you have two machines using this module they may end up playing pingpong. So you have been warned, use with caution and at your own risk. For more information see: MIRROR target.
Downloads for the most recent kernel versions are below. Notice the version numbering 2.6.25 works for kernels up to 2.6.27. 2.6.28 also works for 2.6.29 and probably for future kernels. If you need a version for an older kernel, leave a comment. Then I can look if I have a module version archived for the kernel version you need.
Some days ago Thorsten wrote TuxOnIce is broken in 2.6.29-zen1. Well, I wanted to have a 2.6.29 kernel, because the iwl3945 driver in 2.6.29 works the first time with a useable speed for me. So I no longer need the hack for the ipw3945 driver I published on ipw3945 unter linux-kernel 2.6.27.
Today I managed to patch the brand new zen-sources-2.6.29-r3 with tuxonice. This was necessary since I need tuxonice on my notebook and tuxonice has been removed permanently from zen-sources. Suspend to RAM works at least on my Dell Precison M65 as well as suspend to disk does.
Since 2.6.29-zen3 has not been released as patch yet, you may download the patch I created from git here:
and extract it in /usr/local/portage. Be sure to include the following line in your /etc/make.conf:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
Then emerge zen-sources-toi and buld the kernel as you wish.
The files above are not from an official zen release. Tuxonice is not officially supported in zen-sources. So If you’re using the files above, don’t report any bugs to zen-sources.org.
For my Precision M65 I used the following kernel config:
I’ve updated to zen-sources 2.6.28-zen1 and there is a problem in 2.6.28 with the fingerprint reader (usb) on my notebook. So I searched the web and found a bug report with a patch for these sources. I tried this and will tell you that it works fine for me. I hope this will be soon released.
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