On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 09:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 00:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > [...] > > > People do use the LTS 3.10 kernel with Debian wheezy, it would be a very > > > good thing to be able to better support this kernel, and support early > > > firmware updates for those people out-of-the-box. It will also come on very > > > handy for wheezy-and-a-half (updated kernel) if we decide to release it. > > [...] > > > > We have wheezy-backports for this. I don't see any need to change the > > wheezy version. > > So, I should do a stable update for intel-microcode that doesn't support > early firmware mode? Yes. > And anyone trying a 3.10 kernel on wheezy with > encrypted root will get stuck without a keyboard and no way to boot because > they need initramfs-tools v0.112 or later? The official kernel image packages have correct versioned dependencies on initramfs-tools. And now you are talking about an entirely different problem, anyway. > I can do it, it will be somewhat annoying due to version numbering dances, > but it is not difficult at all. However, we could really enhance the > support of out-of-the-box wheezy for newer kernels with a no-risk stable > update of initramfs-tools v0.113... This is not 'out-of-the-box wheezy' any more then... whichever administrator is customising with a new kernel package can also add the new initramfs-tools package. There is no point in adding just one of them to wheezy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
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