On 03.12.2020 23:09, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:
Hi all,
hopefully this is the right list for my question. Otherwise I'd appreciate a pointing in the right direction.
We (TUXEDO Computers) are selling laptops and PCs with openSUSE Leap preinstalled. One problem we run into quite often is the relatively old kernel version of Leap. E.g. for our lines of AMD Renoir laptops we would need at least 5.6.x upwards to get everything running.
In the past we "fixed" that by manually adding kernels from Kernel:stable which neither is a clean solution nor convenient for technically unexperienced users like many of our customers.
Ubuntu has their so called "Hardware Enablement" updates via point releases which delivers newer Kernels, Mesa etc. In addition to that they maintain an so called OEM Kernel, which currently is at 5.6.x. Both things are really helpful for our purposes.
So my question is: Is there something similar available for openSUSE? Maybe an intermedia kernel for Leap?
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So why don't just create your own repository, signed with your key, added at install time (autoinstall.xml comes to my mind), that would always have latest kernel tested and approved by you, with support for Nv*dia, Atheros/Broadcom/intel/... WiFi, and other KMP packages. I suppose that you don't have that many really different models that you cannot test all of them with latest Kernel:stable, and just don't include a version until you verify that it is working with all of them. For the OS reinstall, you could have a .rpm in the Drivers section that adds necessary repo and changes zypp.conf to allow updates from it... --- Srdačan pozdrav/Best regards/Freundliche Grüße/Cordialement/よろしくお願いします Siniša Bandin