[Kernel] Release Meeting 2011-12-16

[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 3.2.0-4.10
and 3.2.0-5.11 kernels.  The most notable changes found in these uploads
are the rebase to upstream v3.2-rc5, set DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=32k on
arm, add veth and overlayfs to virtual flavor, disable dmar if ricoh
multifution is detected, and numerous config updates.  The 3.2.0-5.11
kernel also dropped the custom patch which resolved LP:894768 in favor
of pulling the suggested upstream fixes.

We have a large number of work items targeted for the Alpha2 release, of
which 67% (56/83) appear completed.

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

As noted above, we uploaded the 3.2.0-5.11 kernel.  Please test and let
us know your results.

The proposal to drop support for the i386 non-pae kernel was discussed
at Monday's Dec 12 Tech Board meeting.  It was decided to keep the i386
non-pae flavor for the 12.04 LTS release and instead look to drop
support for it in 12.10.  This will provide 5 more years of support for
users needing this kernel.  As an intermediary step, the installer has
also been updated to default to the generic-pae kernel for i386.

== 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

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

== Issues? ==
None.