On 2016-05-25 13:24, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Richard Brown
writes: For people like you who buy USB 3.1 Gen 2 Ludicrous speed cards so early in the protocols existence the Kernel doesn't support it yet, we have Tumbleweed. Or they can use Kernel:stable on top of Leap, which combines the stability with extra hardware support. This is a good point.
Indeed it is :-)
I would suggest a special download option: openSUSE Leap with updated hardware support (mainly a Kernel from Kernel_stable; but optional also an updated graphical subsystem etc.).
I like the idea. Distribute Leap with an LTS kernel, and provide an option to upgrade to a more recent kernel for those that need that hardware support. On "as is" basis, not full support, but neither "kernel of the day".
A problem with the Kernel_stable kernels is sometimes, that the commercial graphics drivers are not compatible. Currently we have this with the recommended NVidia driver 361.42 and kernel 4.6.
If the optional kernel remains the same version for a longish period maybe the rpm could be provided for it. Else, you need the .run package instead. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)