[elrepo] Announcement: EL6 kmod-bbswitch, bumblebee and libbsd Testing Release

[Akemi Yagi]

Announcing the test release of new packages, kmod-bbswitch, bumblebee
and libbsd into the EL6 elrepo-testing repository:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-bbswitch
http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee
http://elrepo.org/tiki/libbsd

These packages have been contributed by Rob Mokkink [1-3]

The kmod-bbswitch package provides a kernel module which automatically
detects the required ACPI calls for two kinds of Optimus laptops. It
has been verified to work with "real" Optimus and "legacy" Optimus
laptops. The machines that have been tested are:

Clevo B7130 - GT 425M ("real" Optimus, Lekensteyns laptop)
Dell Vostro 3500 - GT 310M ("legacy" Optimus, Samsagax' laptop)

This package is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a
range of releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on
any one specific build.

The bumblebee package provides a bumblebee daemon that enables Linux
to utilize the Nvidia Optimus Hybrid cards. It requires the libbsd
package.

The libbsd package provides useful functions commonly found on BSD
systems and lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier
to port projects with strong BSD origins, without needing to embed the
same code over and over again on each project.

The following files are currently syncing to the mirrors:

x86:
kmod-bbswitch-0.4.1-2.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
bumblebee-3.0-2.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
libbsd-0.2.0-4.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
libbsd-devel-0.2.0-4.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kmod-bbswitch-0.4.1-2.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
bumblebee-3.0-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
libbsd-0.2.0-4.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
libbsd-devel-0.2.0-4.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

src:
bbswitch-kmod-0.4.1-2.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
bumblebee-3.0-2.el5.elrepo.src.rpm
libbsd-0.2.0-4.el6.elrepo.src.rpm

End-user testing and subsequent feedback will speed the eventual
promotion of these packages from elrepo-testing to the main
repository.

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.

[1] https://github.com/elrepo/packages/tree/master/bbswitch
[2] https://github.com/elrepo/packages/tree/master/bumblebee
[3] https://github.com/elrepo/packages/tree/master/libbsd