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What's new in the Linux kernel
+and what's missing in Debian
Ben Hutchings
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Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
-
-
- Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
- and PCI code as necessary
-
-
- Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
- maintenance aside from ports
-
-
- Maintaining Linux 3.2.y stable update series on
- kernel.org
-
-
+
+
+ Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
+ and PCI code as necessary
+
+
+ Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
+ maintenance aside from ports
+
+
+ Maintaining Linux 3.2.y stable update series on
+ kernel.org
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Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
every week or two)
+
+
+ ...though some features aren't ready to use when they firat
+ appear in a release
+
+
For 'wheezy' we chose to freeze with Linux 3.2, which was
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needs new tools - teamd , teamnl , etc.
- Want to make it work? See
+ Make it work: see
http://bugs.debian.org/695850
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configuration
- Want to make it work? See
+ Make it work: see
https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/
- and mail debian-kernel
+ and send proposal to debian-kernel
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are disabled for now
- Want to make it work? Join the X Strike Force and package the
- new X drivers
+ Make it work: join the X Strike Force and package the new X
+ drivers
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restrictions when booted in this mode
- Want to make Secure Boot work? Come to the meeting on Tuesday
+ Make Secure Boot work: come to the meeting on Tuesday
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Must be explicitly enabled, but d-i doesn't do this by default
- Want to make it work?
- See http://bugs.debian.org/690977
+ Make it work: fix http://bugs.debian.org/690977
+
+
+
+
+
+
More support for containers
+
+
+ Containers are lightweight VMs - run on the same kernel as host,
+ but with limited privileges and resources
+
+
+ Previously done by OpenVZ and Linux-VServer; gradually being
+ reimplemented upstream
+
+
+ User namespaces (added in 3.7) support the existence of a
+ root user inside the container that is unprivileged
+ outside the container
+
+
+ Currently somewhat experimental, and requires filesystem
+ changes which haven't been done for XFS
+
+
+ Make user namespaces work: send patches to upstream XFS
+ developers (this one's hard)
+
+
+
+
+
+
bcache [3.10]
+
+
+ Turns a fast block device into a cache for a larger, slower
+ device (see also: dm-cache, EnhanceIO)
+
+
+ Needs its own set of userland tools
+
+
+ Make it work:
+ see http://bugs.debian.org/708132
+ (maybe just needs a sponsor)
+
+
+
+
+
+
ARMv7 multiplatform
+
+
+ Until recently, each ARM kernel image could support only a small
+ set of different chips
+
+
+ Debian 'armmp' kernel now supports ARMv7 SoCs from Calxeda,
+ Freescale and Marvell, and others should be supported soon
+
+
+ Debian could run on a much larger range of ARM hardware - but we
+ need installer and boot loader support to make this easy
+
+
+ Make it work: join the ARM porters and d-i team
+
+
+ Make the GPUs work: join a reverse-engineering project