Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:21:35AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:54:06PM +0400, recoverym4n@gmail.com wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Furthermore, Wheezy's kernel is 3.2 not 2.6.32.
Furthermore, current unstable only has 3.10 (Dropped 3,2).
Soon, testing/jessie will only have 3.10.
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