On Dienstag, 20. November 2018 14:08:16 CET Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Hi,
As most of you already noticed Leap 15.1 is in the works on OBS in openSUSE:Leap:15.1. As with it's predecessors we use a rolling development process until the final release. The release is expected May 2019.
Right now 15.1 calls itself Alpha even though a release in this early stage probably never has been so green in openQA. Following SLE 15 SP1 there are also no really deep changes on the horizon so far. We will stay with the same base system as 15.0.
15.1 automatically pulls maintenance updates from 15.0, as well as updates from SLE 15 SP1 that is in development too. Packages that originally came from Factory in 15.0 will not automatically update to Factory versions. To make individual packages in 15.1 follow Factory again, updates for such packages have to be submitted manually once from Factory to 15.1.
Hi Ludwig, Leap 15.0 got some blaming in a well known and regarded german computer magazine due to the "outdated" kernel/graphics stack [1]. As far as I can see in [2], there were some updates, but it lacks support for VegaM (Intel CPU + AMD iGPU, already available), Vega12 (Marketing name: Radeon Pro Vega 16/20, e.g newest Macbook Pro) and Vega 20 (Radeon Instinct MI50/60) and the Raven APUs (Ryzen 3/5 2xxxG). Even Vega56/64 is still guarded by the module parameter amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1. Are there plans to also get these included until the release? Kind regards, and keep up the good work, Stefan [1] Sorry - subscription only: https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-14-OpenSuse-Leap-15-0-mit-weiterem-Upda... --- DE: Leap unterstützt moderne Hardware aber trotzdem schlechter als frischer ausgestattete Distributionen. So hat gerade der für moderne Radeon-Grafikchips zuständige Kernel-Treiber Amdgpu im letzten Jahr massive Fortschritte gemacht, die Leap fehlen. Die Distribution weiß daher nichts mit AMDs aktuellen High- End-GPUs der Vega-Serie anzufangen; bei vielen Radeon-Modellen der 400er- und 500er-Serie fehlen für besonders hochauflösende Displays und die Audio-Ausgabe wichtige Treiberfunktionen. --- EN: Leap supports modern hardware but still worse than freshly equipped distributions. For example, the kernel driver Amdgpu, which is responsible for modern Radeon graphics chips, has made massive progress over the last year, which Leap lacks. The distribution therefore does not know how to handle AMD's current high-end Vega series GPUs; Many Radeon models of the 400 and 500 series lack important driver functions for particularly high-resolution displays and the audio output. --- [2] https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel/log/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu? h=SLE15-SP1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org