F7t2 and QA Meeting

[Will Woods]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:43 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Will Woods wrote:
> 
> > As Jesse announced on fedora-devel-list, the code freeze for Fedora 7,
> > Test 2 is today (this evening, US EST).
> 
> I'm not sure when you intend to freeze the kernel for F7T2 (perhaps 
> today?), but the current kernel -git, along with the existing rawhide 
> 2930 and 2932 kernels (and maybe the previous one, too), won't boot from 
> a VIA SATA 6420, 6421, or 8237A controller.  I'd guess this affects a 
> pretty good number F7 testers who use SATA on a VIA chipset motherboard.
> 
> A patch to fix the problem was accepted into the libata tree this 
> morning, so it should show up in the mainline kernel -git soon.

kernel-2.6.20-1.2932 is fairly explodey in general - it BUGs in
ahci_init on my ICH6 SATA machine. We won't be releasing with this one.

-w
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