<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">Hi,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">I am trying to build and boot linux-next kernel tree. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">My original kernel with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was 3.5.0-23-generic. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">I checked out code with tag next-20141226. I generated a ".config" file with "make localmodconfig". I installed modules and kernel.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">On restart PC do not boot up. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">I then checked out tag v3.16-rc3 and booted. It worked pretty good and booted properly.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">I had few question from this exercise:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">1) Why my PC didn't boot up with linux-next kernel?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">2) Do I need to apply any specific patches to boot mainline linux-next kernel on my Ubuntu 12.04 PC?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="">3) How do people test mainline kernel-next? Do they apply their OS specific patch on linux-next tree or test linux-next on some specific OS?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="" dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style="" dir="ltr">Sunil.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419928593967_22664" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>