Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:06 +0300 | From | Pasi Kärkkäinen <> | Subject | Re: [Stable-review] Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). |
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:33:34AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 21:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:01:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > [...] > > > One specific issue I have is support for PREEMPT_RT, so that's a big > > > factor in selecting Sony kernel versions. Thus, coordinating with the > > > RT patchset kernel versions is important to me. Currently > > > that would mean 3.0 is a good candidate. > > > > 3.0 is looking like a good candidate, but we haven't seen 3.1 yet :) > [...] > > I'm quite happy with 3.0 in terms of stability and features, though it's > early days yet. It's not so good for Debian in terms of timing. We're > not going to freeze for another 10 months, then the release will likely > be at least 6 months after that. The earlier a kernel release we pick > with, the more hardware support needs to be backported later. So, > extrapolating the likely kernel release dates, I think I would prefer to > use something between 3.2 and 3.4. >
I'd *guess* Ubuntu 12.04 LTS goes for Linux 3.2 ..
-- Pasi
> As for the RT patchset, I haven't seen any announcement that it will > continue to be developed against 3.0 after the release of 3.1. Of > course, the fact that there *is* a working RT patchset for 3.0 is an > advancement over recent upstream releases. > > Ben. >
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