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    From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 01:27:35 2025
    I've built the latest release candidate kernel, and booted it in
    a virtual machine.

    $ tail -n 3 uname.out nohup.out
    uname.out <==
    Linux mintvirt 6.15.0-rc3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 21 12:29:21 PDT 2025
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    nohup.out <==
    real 407.34
    user 19040.85
    sys 3865.71

    Compiles without errors, and 10 warnings, all except one being -Wframe-larger-than 1024.

    I did boot this one on bare metal, also, but wasn't able to get either
    the release or the beta NVIDIA drivers to build on them. (I didn't expect
    them to work, as NVIDIA says they only support released kernels with their drivers. But sometimes, they do start working early.)

    I usually leave these rc kernels running in a virtual machine, and see if
    any background processes generate messages in dmesg. So far doing this,
    I've only come up with one bug, which on looking it up I ended up testing
    a fix, which ended up in the next rc kernel, and is now in the 6.14 series
    and later. ("I'm helping!" ;) )

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    OS: Linux 6.14.3 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
    "For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision."

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to vallor on Tue Apr 22 16:39:19 2025
    On 22 Apr 2025 01:27:35 GMT, vallor <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    I've built the latest release candidate kernel, and booted it in a
    virtual machine.

    $ tail -n 3 uname.out nohup.out ==> uname.out <==
    Linux mintvirt 6.15.0-rc3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 21 12:29:21 PDT 2025
    x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    nohup.out <==
    real 407.34 user 19040.85 sys 3865.71

    Compiles without errors, and 10 warnings, all except one being -Wframe-larger-than 1024.

    I did boot this one on bare metal, also, but wasn't able to get either
    the release or the beta NVIDIA drivers to build on them. (I didn't
    expect them to work, as NVIDIA says they only support released kernels
    with their drivers. But sometimes, they do start working early.)

    I usually leave these rc kernels running in a virtual machine, and see
    if any background processes generate messages in dmesg. So far doing
    this, I've only come up with one bug, which on looking it up I ended up testing a fix, which ended up in the next rc kernel, and is now in the
    6.14 series and later. ("I'm helping!" ;) )

    Built the "linux-next" kernel based on the one above, booted it on
    my virtual machine.

    $ tail -n 3 uname.out nohup.out
    uname.out <==
    Linux mintvirt 6.15.0-rc3-next-20250422 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 22 08:48:48
    PDT 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    nohup.out <==
    real 684.32
    user 36340.42
    sys 4162.66

    Not sure why it took so much longer to build than previous kernels.

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    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti
    OS: Linux 6.14.3 Release: Mint 22.1 Mem: 258G
    "System going down at 5 p.m. to install scheduler bug."

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