Update to Kernel 4.10 RC6 on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Terminal commands to install Linux Kernel 4.10 RC6 on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. It brings various changes and fixes.
Announcing the release, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So this week seemed very calm, and rc6 looked like it was going to be a nice tiny release. Just like I want it…. and then Friday happened, and the small and calm release candidate somehow blew up to not be all that small after all.
Oh well. It’s not like this is a new pattern – people end up pushing me their work for the week on Friday, and that’s been going on for a few years by now, and I’ve mentioned it before. It was just even more noticeable than usual. And that late set of pull requests that came in Friday (with a couple this weekend) pushed rc6 to be the biggest rc so far during this release cycle (that’s obviously not counting rc1). It’s still not all that big by historical standards, since 4.10 has generally been pretty calm, but it’s a bit distressing. I was hoping to do the usual “rc7 is the last rc” release schedule for once (with both 4.8 and 4.9 pushing out to rc8), and I really want things to calm down for that to happen.
We’ll see. Anyway, there’s nothing that particularly worries me in rc6 apart from the lack of slowing down, and that _may_ just be timing (ie not
everybody sends their updates every rc, so sometimes you just get things bunching up more). So I’m not giving up on the “rc7 is the last rc” dream yet.
The changes are mostly in drivers (GPU and networking stand out, but rdma and media and MD are pretty noticeable too), with the rest being mostly generic networking and some XFS updates, with the usual random smattering of patches elsewhere.
Go test!
Linus
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/29/149
On 64 Bit Systems
Build for amd64 succeeded (see BUILD.LOG.amd64): Run the following commands in terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.10 RC6 on Ubuntu Systems.
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6-generic_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6-lowlatency_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.10*.deb linux-image-4.10*.deb
sudo reboot
On 32 Bit Systems
Build for i386 succeeded (see BUILD.LOG.i386): Run the following commands in terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.10 RC6 on Ubuntu Systems.
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6-generic_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.10-rc6/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000rc6-lowlatency_4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.10*.deb linux-image-4.10*.deb
sudo reboot
Kernel v4.10-rc6 mainline build
These binary packages represent builds of the mainline or stable Linux kernel tree at the commit below:
v4.10-rc6 (566cf877a1fcb6d6dc0126b076aad062054c2637)
To obtain the source from which they are built fetch the commit below:
git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-test/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/mainline-crack v4.10-rc6
and apply the following patches on top in the order below:
0001-base-packaging.patch
0002-UBUNTU-SAUCE-add-vmlinux.strip-to-BOOT_TARGETS1-on-p.patch
0003-UBUNTU-SAUCE-tools-hv-lsvmbus-add-manual-page.patch
0004-UBUNTU-SAUCE-no-up-disable-pie-when-gcc-has-it-enabl.patch
0005-debian-changelog.patch
0006-configs-based-on-Ubuntu-4.10.0-5.7.patch
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