Re: Debian hardware support and enablement for newer devices (was ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 02:31 +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> > As a project, how can we improve the current entry level to new
> > companies wanting support for their devices?
>
> Is the backports archive not sufficient for this? I see it doesn't
> contain mesa backports at this point and probably other hardware
> enablement, but that could be fixed.
I wouldn't recommend enabling backports by default for pre-installed
systems as using backports is something a bit fiddly (temporarily
uninstallable packages, sometimes extra pinning to pull in additional
packages or manual intervention is needed, ...).
Ubuntu seems to offer newer kernel and graphics drivers as separate
packages in the main archive instead, see [1].
I remember support for new hardware in stable releases to be a general
problem, especially short before a new release when the kernel in
stable already ~2 years out. Currently I no longer administrate
desktop systems with stable, but when I did so in the past it was
sometimes a problem to fully support recent hardware.
Ansgar
[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
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