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Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years



On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 08:29 +0000, Thierry Vilmart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let me just express my worry that Debian buster and debian based
> distributions like Ubuntu will miss kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2
> years until next Debian release in 2 years.
>
> fact 1: AMD Free sync needs the kernel 5, and it is a very nice feature
> to adapt the monitor's refresh rate smarter than V-sync, and to avoid
> tearing.

The current 5.x version (probably 5.1) will be available in buster-
backports soon after buster is released.

And to quote Linus: ""5.0" doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x
numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes."

> fact 2: kernel 4.19 goes out of life in Dec 2020
[...]

I addressed this in
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2019/04/msg00116.html>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered
an expert.

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