On Wednesday 05 January 2011, 08:26:45 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 04.01.2011 22:57, schrieb Greg Freemyer:
Remember I volunteered to be part of the Evergreen kernel team if you moved to the 2.6.32 kernel.
Greg, do you know what else (if so) needs to be updated when moving to this kernel?
I'm not Greg, but in my case for 2.6.31, the usual offenders were (IIRC): NetworkManager, WLAN, bluetooth, ... Unfortunately, on my main workstation, where I'm locked into 11.1 because of customer (support) needs, 2.6.31 is the last working kernel - all attempts to get beyond that failed so far: the problem is that my bog standard PS2 keyboard (Cherry G80-3000) will stop responding at a random point until the system is rebooted. It's probably due to races in the input system of the kernel and X, that got fixed on later releases, but who knows. What I know is, that it never happened with .31, but with any of .32, .33, .34. Asking for advice, how to debug this here and on LKML got ignored. Needless to say, that I'm dependent from this system to get real work done. OTHO, I have a server running 11.1 and 2.6.36 with no adverse effects (but I do not use any dangerous parts from above, nor XEN, but an updated KVM occasionally). I agree with you, that there's a big need for LTS versions of openSUSE, but all attempts failed because it misses a sustainable business model. While there are many potential users of such a product, there are far to few maintainers (that will mostly just have the "benefit" of whining users, if something broke..). That's not overly attractive. If you really start Evergreen, let me know, I will try to support it then. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org