On Saturday 15 August 2015 11.22:09 Michal Kubecek wrote:

Hello,

I'm currently rethinking the decision to base Evergreen 13.1 kernel on SLE12 one; I would like to discuss the option to base it on SLE12-SP1 kernel instead.

When I started planning the kernel for Evergreen 13.1, using SLE12 for it was a natural choice: expected end of 13.1 regular support was about half a year after SLE12 release and SLE12 had 3.12 kernel which was close enough to 3.11 we present in 13.1. This kernel is already available for anyone wishing to use it in home:mkubecek:evergreen-13.1 OBS repository and AFAIK some people are running it on their 13.1 systems (me, for instance). Thanks to restate where we can find it.

Actually I've a couple of 13.1 that I want to keep fresh and run with kernel:stable repo. which is great except the pace of one new kernel per week. (Most are servers)

However, a few things changed since the original decision and now it looks like 13.1 is going to be supported until shortly after SLE12 SP1 is released. As SLE12-SP1 kernel is also 3.12 (but with many additional backports), basing Evergreen 13.1 kernel on SLE12-SP1 would have some advantages while the transition would be less demanding than moving to a new base version.

I tried to gather the pros and cons of the transition:

+ more backports, mostly drivers but also some "core" functionality + some non-critical fixes that were too intrusive for a maintenance update + longer regular support - current users might encounter some problems (like need to rebuild 3rd party modules) - SLE12 is more mature after more than year, SLE12-SP1 will be relatively fresh

If it was only up to me, I would probably go on with the transition to SLE12-SP1. But I would like to hear from current evergreen-13.1 kernel users and users planning to use Evergreen 13.1 when 13.1 regular support finishes.

Michal Kubeček

I hardly believe, that could be a nice step forward to think and try to get it (if you believe it could do the job) inside the already official update repo for 13.1 or at least advertise the changes so people can test it from the update-oss-test repo? We (once we is defined ;-) can then check if vbox, vmware, nvidia, fglrx builds and work with. It has been months since the last update, and I fear that some of the last security issues were not really covered in the actual 3.11.10-29 ( beside the fact I can be 100% wrong :-) ) I will try your build kernel and report if I found any issue with it. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org