Am Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2015, 07:55:20 schrieb Michal Kubecek:
On Wednesday 08 of July 2015 17:25:57 Jay wrote:
An LTS-kernel would reinforce the LTS-/ultimate-stability-idea of Leap while ensuring hardware-support that's up-to-date-enough for that release. It would also signal that Leap is not behind the status quo.
The latest LTS-kernel listed on kernel.org is 3.18. That's newer than the initial kernel (3.16) for 13.2. And I think that may already suffice. An LTS-kernel 4.1 would of course be better - if "announced" is really equal to "listed".
According to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html, 3.18 stable has expected EOL in January 2017. That's not sufficient if we want three years of support for 42.1.
But there will be service-packs of the SUSE-packages. We could switch to the latest LTS-kernel available at that time.
Of course, we don't know yet for how long does Greg plan to maintain 4.1 stable (technically, it's not LTS yet).
In any way it should be ensured that 13.2-users who upgrade to Leap don't encounter hardware-issues due to an outdated kernel.
Just an idea... what if we don't insist on 13.2 -> 42.1 being an upgrade in all components? If we hold to the "two releases plus two months" rule, 13.2 should be supported until 42.2 is released so that current 13.2 users could keep using it for now and then upgrade to 42.2 which will most likely have newer kernel.
Michal Kubeček
One could do that. But in the end this would amount to an outright recommendation to 13.2-users (and other potential users as well) NOT to upgrade to Leap because hardware-support is too far behind status quo. Difficult to imagine. And it would only translocate the issue into the future. As I see it, everything is in place for Leap 42.1 to become a great success - except hardware-support. Going with the latest available (or "announced") LTS-kernel might solve that problem and therefore seems like a reasonable compromise to me. If technically feasable, that is. Rainer Fiebig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org