-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2015 07:45 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 6 May 2015 at 12:43, Guido Berhoerster <gber@opensuse.org> wrote:
The main problem is that SLE and openSUSE have very different target audiences, the SLE kernel targets entreprise customers which tend to use enterprise hardware which is substantially different from consumer grade hardware with completely different lifecycles. Providing a kernel which lags years behind means (even with limited backports) that openSUSE releases likely cannot be used by a large share of endusers using more current consumer hardware (this is particularly an issue with consumer-grade laptops for which driver support is already problematic in the current situation). So I don't think this works at all and makes it much worse that what we have today, i.e. every 8 months a release containing the most current kernel at the time of the release even if its maintenance leaves much to be desired.
Are these statements that the "SLE Kernel doesn't have the hardware support required" based on fact, actual experience, or just theory based on assumptions?
Actual experience in my case. Although this effected SLE 11 at the time the problem I ran into was with an Ethernet dongle which worked perfectly fine with openSUSE but the driver had not been backported to SLE 11 kernel, this was passed the kernel upgrade we did in SP3. Given that the kernel development model for SLE hasn't really changed this is a very real issue that we have to deal with. openSUSE users expect a much larger range of hardware to be supported and if the hardware is not on the "interest to SLE" list the backport is not going to happen. Even if it is on the "interest for SLE" list the backport is likely to be slower than getting the feature from a newer upstream kernel in a snapshot based regular release.
SUSE do lots of work for hardware enablement,
Yes, all driven by partners that develop enterprise HW. Almost none driven by requests for consumer grade HW. Later, Robert - -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVSlo7AAoJEE4FgL32d2Uk8tcIAKA7yJ8gXO6W8PXDisr8GaS+ hJIaLBEX1LKyo7uCrWv0cfK3G9AVqltVTsWG2u8ow5zTlTc8G4O15a0w9WLWT9si 2uDxmnyesPgXWbwCr1LLvTTYKEoeKnFj6rvatPDRePu59q6q06sAt0QUPWkKi5ZT 6FECpLRU1tzVt7sX+kdliQXYWUtvy0UwGOIJ+p0Zot/ZD82YdTyqAThiQDOmzLOn VyaY9OvMWhu+xqo3F65xkp04BF97ie6qYkosXwR7uxlkVm0vjqnuj4DmKnlgpaR0 TZ7dhz5Nc+KDcCWNdcTlPcPW/pyMHGZMvhFA0SKMAAsHJNfl2XjXjPHCCkx8QCM= =PfQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org