[Kernel] Release Meeting 2012-01-06

[Leann Ogasawara]

Overall status is reported at the first link below.  Burn down for
Precise Alpha-2 is at the second link below.  Burndown for the cycle is
at the third link:

 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/ReleaseStatus/Precise
 * http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-kernel-team-precise-alpha-2.html
 * http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-kernel-team.html

== What was done engineering wise? ==

This past week the Ubuntu kernel team uploaded the 3.2.0-8.14 kernel.
The most notable change is the rebase to upstream v3.2 final.
Additional changes include updating aufs, adding ext* modules to the
-virtual flavor, and improved statfs reporting for eCryptfs.

We have a large number of work items targeted for the Alpha2 release, of
which 65% (82/165) appear completed.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

As noted above, we uploaded the 3.2.0-8.14 kernel which was rebased on
v3.2 final.

== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ==

Aside from the immediate bugs/issues we resolved this week, we're also
keeping an eye on the following bugs:

 * Bug:818830 - [Sandy Bridge] serious power regression from kernel 3.0.0-6 to 3.0.0-7 (rc6 disabled)
 * Bug:855124 - XRANDR operations very slow unless (phantom) HDMI1 disabled
 * Bug:836250 - Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 poor networking
 * Bug:898127 - system hangs and errors at /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:113 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0xdc/0xf0()
 * Bug:901305 - precise fails boot on ec2 hvm
 * Bug:897866 - NFS install fails with a kernel panic
 * Bug:897102 - precise can't boot with linux 3.2.0.1.1
 * Bug:904297 - System crashed with latest updates
 * Bug:898112 - Xen performance issue: backport acpi-cpufreq.v4 branch to 3.2 kernel for Precise
 * Bug:911236 - DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==
None.

== Issues? ==
None.