On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:54:06PM +0400, recoverym4n@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:46:40 +0200 > Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> wrote: > > > What is the minimum kernel version for the upcoming Jessie? Can I rely > > on that this does no change after the freeze? (IIRC at Nov 5th) > > Considering one should be always able to do apt-get dist-upgrade from > wheezy to jessie (and that means using wheezy's kernel with jessie's > userland, at least temporary), it should be safe to assume that minimum > kernel requirement for jessie's userland is 2.6.32. This isn't really a safe assumption. There have been transitions in the past (such as udev) where the dist-upgrade should be performed as: * Update sources.list * Install new kernel and new udev * Reboot * Proceed with dist-upgrade After the reboot, you're then running on the previous release's userland with the current release's kernel. That situation SHOULD be more stable than the other way around as kernels /rarely/ remove functionality. But if you run new userland on an old kernel, and it tries to call functionality that's not there, you can run into trouble. > Since wheezy's kernel version is fixed for its lifetime, it's highly > unlikely that such requirement will change in the future. > > Of course, wheezy's 2.6.32 and, say, CentOS's 2.6.32 are different > kernels, and in the second case you can expect all kinds of strange > behaviour. > > Reco > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 20131016155406.fad2fa9ed37e2e21f6909dc5@gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20131016155406.fad2fa9ed37e2e21f6909dc5@gmail.com >
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