Nouveau, kernel and freezes

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Vanack Sabbadium
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Beigetreten: 03/05/2019

I don't know if someone is aware of some issues related to nouveau and older kernels, such as freezes, GPU crashes and multithreading.
I talked with one of nouveau's developers, Karol Herbst, and he is working on it for a long time.

In this tweet (https://twitter.com/nouveau_xorg/status/1274628416306909184) he said he implemented a patch in one of the newest Linux kernels (5.6).
However, Trisquel repository is still at Linux kernel 4.15, which is pretty much old.

Is there any plan to implement a kernel > 5.6? (the latest is the 5.7)
Or, is it safe to upgrade manually to the latest Linux kernel (or Linux-libre in this case) without messing with everything else?

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Beigetreten: 07/24/2010

Is there any plan to implement a kernel > 5.6?

As far as I know, a given version of Trisquel always ships the same versions of the kernel (not the "same kernels": Trisquel's do not include proprietary software) as the related Ubuntu version. So: no. But, as you know, jxself maintains https://jxself.org/linux-libre/

Vanack Sabbadium
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Beigetreten: 03/05/2019

Yeah, thanks. I've seen the other topic about it, and i managed to install the latest linux-libre kernel, which is 5.7.4.
And it works GREAT (no issues at all).

Unfortunately, still crashes happens sometimes due to some Nouveau bug still unresolved.
I'm talking with Karol Herbst to find a solution but i need more logs.

P.S. Oh, and as far as i know, the latest linux-libre kernel version inside trisquel repositories is 4.15.106, which is pretty much old.

jxself
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Beigetreten: 09/13/2010

"Unfortunately, still crashes happens sometimes due to some Nouveau bug still unresolved.
I'm talking with Karol Herbst to find a solution but i need more logs."

Hopefully it will be fixed with 5.8 which is due out probably in the latter part of July. I'm predicting July 19 assuming that there are a total of 6 Release Candidates (which is most common but sometimes there have been 7 and 8 so add 1 or 2 more weeks for that). Time will tell. Either way I will have 5.8 out and ready within 24 hours as per usual.

"P.S. Oh, and as far as i know, the latest linux-libre kernel version inside trisquel repositories is 4.15.106, which is pretty much old."

But still being maintained. That's one of the appealing parts of Trisquel to me: The freezing of version numbers on release, except for backported security and bug fixes only.

Vanack Sabbadium
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Beigetreten: 03/05/2019

Yeah, it's still maintained and that's an amazing thing. But if there's a critical bug like that (random freezings are very annoying), i'd rather install the latest version if it's patched for that.
I hope 5.8 will fix it, thank you so much!