Chrome/Chromium To Require Newer Version Of Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome/Chromium To Require Newer Version Of Linux Kernel

Those using the bleeding-edge version of Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser are discovering you need to be using a relatively new version of the Linux kernel to avoid issues...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Chrome-TSYNC-Kernel

[Ancurio]

Well, this is bad news for me. I still run the older Fedora19 kernel (3.14 I believe) because the newer radeon kernel driver crashes my Xorg regularly.

[teresaejunior]

Chrome 40.0.2214.115-1 actually works good on Linux 3.15.10 (zen-686).

[davidbepo]

wtf

chrome 41 with linux kernel 3.14.34-lts-ck everything works fine

[mmstick]

Well, this is bad news for me. I still run the older Fedora19 kernel (3.14 I believe) because the newer radeon kernel driver crashes my Xorg regularly.

What Radeon GPU is this? I don't have any problems with a 4870, 6850, 7950, R9 270X, A4-5000, A8-6400K or A8-7600 with any recent kernels.

[kernelOfTruth]

lol - not sure what they're talking about

running chromium 42 here on 3.19-based kernel

and there's no SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC

[d2kx]

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) has the necessary change since November
Ubuntu 14.04.2 + 14.10 (utopic) have the necessary change since October

So Ubuntu is fine...

[schmidtbag]

Too bad it 3.17 wasn't the linux 4.0 release. That would have made it very easy to differentiate.

[kernelOfTruth]

lol - not sure what they're talking about

running chromium 42 here on 3.19-based kernel

and there's no SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC

just took a look in the source code - it already seems to be there


@davidbepo:

perhaps that feature flag already got backported ?

[NuMessiah]

3.4.63!

Hmm, running chrome 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) under openSUSE 12.2 "Mantis", Linux 3.4.63-2.44-desktop just works!?!