[Kernel] Release Meeting 2012-01-20

[Leann Ogasawara]

NOTE: Andy Whitcroft (apw) will be standing in for me at the release
meeting

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-distro-team-precise-alpha-2.html
 * http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-kernel-distro-team.html

== What was done engineering wise? ==

As noted in last week's meeting, we've rebased to the first v3.2.1
upstream stable release.  We've also uploaded the 3.2.0-10.17 kernel.
This latest uploaded includes an updated overlayfs patch set,
CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_DEFAULT_ON disablement, and an upstream fix to
re-enable USB ports for Dell 1536/1546's.  We're also three
quarters of a way through an extensive kernel configuration review.

We have a large number of work items targeted for the Alpha2 release, of
which 92% (152/165) are completed.  The remaining items are not release
critical.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==
As noted above, we've uploaded the 3.2.0-10.17 kernel.  Please test and
let us know of any issues which you encounter.

=== Release Notes ===
The Precise kernel has been rebased to upstream stable v3.2.1.

== 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: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.