On Thursday, 12 January 2017 9:32 Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
IMHO that's partly a communication/marketing issue. Most people will read v4.4 and _think_ their new HW is unsopported just because they don't know there are backports.
There are backports, sure, but are these really what openSUSE users want or need? What we backport to SLE is mostly support for hardware interesting for SLES customers, things like 10Gb/s or 40Gb/s ethernet, infiniband, fiber channel, SCSI storage, multipath etc. I'm afraid openSUSE customers would be rather interested in things like recent graphics or sound chips sold in consumer grade segment. Just an example: are we going to do backports of radeon driver when we tell SLE customers not to use it? I must say I'm pleasantly surprised that so far most of those who provided their opinion prefer SLE12-SP3 based kernel, personally I didn't expect this option to have any real chance. On the other hand, when I take a look at the names, I don't really think it's a representative sample of openSUSE user base. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org