The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 4.15. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. This version has many security fixes included. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test day for Thursday, February 22. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate.
How do test days work?
A test day is an event where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed before, this is a perfect way to get started.
To contribute, you only need to be able to do the following things:
- Download test materials, which include some large files
- Read and follow directions step by step
The wiki page for the kernel test day has a lot of good information on what and how to test. After you’ve done some testing, you can log your results in the test day web application. If you’re available on or around the day of the event, please do some testing and report your results.
Happy testing, and we hope to see you on test day.
temjin747
Will Workstation/Server be the only versions tested? Will any other spins be available for testing?
Thanks!
Paul W. Frields
@temjin747: The edition or spin shouldn’t be relevant to these kernel tests.
Mike88
Hi! I’m prepering for the kernel-test day so i git cloned the kernel-tests repo, and made some tests. Running the default test i discovered a fail in the sysfs-perm test because it find one ‘word writeable’ file in sysfs.
The file happen to be /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/rc/fixed_rate_idx with permissions 666
Do i have to change permissions to that file? -rw——- root root will solve?
Walter Guth
just ran into a minor problem, when trying to make Virtualbox Guest additions
copied from log:
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.”; \
echo >&2 ” include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.”;\
echo >&2 ” Run ‘make oldconfig && make prepare’ on kernel src to fix it.”; \
Robert Orzanna
Can I help testing from my current Fedora 27 install by installing the kernel 4.15 there?
Paul W. Frields
@Robert: My understanding is yes. Definitely join the Test Day and you can communicate with the team through their IRC channel, #fedora-test-day.
Robert Orzanna
Will do, thanks! 🙂
Temjin747
Yes, that is what I did. The wiki says that you can use the latest kernel from the updates-testing repository.