Re: Kernel version for jessie
On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 22:41 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> 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.
FWIW: me too. Mainly because 3.14 will be pretty old even by the time we
freeze, never mind by the time we release.
I don't follow it closely but AFAICT the Ubuntu guys do a decent enough
job of the existing stable tree(s) which they maintain.
Ian.
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