Re: Kernel version for jessie
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:43:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 17:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> Linux 3.14-stable
> - Supported by Greg for about 2 years after release (March 2014)
> - As an official kernel.org branch, it is likely to get some more
> testing and review, and more backports from upstream maintainers
>
> Linux 3.16-stable
> - Supported by Ubuntu kernel team for about 15-18 months after distro
> release (October 2014)
> - Will support more current hardware and need fewer driver backports
>
> Both of these will be supported until about the same time that wheezy
> reaches EOL, which is when I intend to stop maintaining 3.2-stable. At
> that point, I would be prepared to take over maintainership of either of
> the newer branches.
>
> There's not an obvious winner out of these two options, but we should
> choose fairly soon. Please speak up with arguments either way.
For Haswell support and in order not to have yet another drm needed
backport, I'd vote for 3.16.
--
maks
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