On 2/17/21 9:50 AM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote:
On 2/17/21 3:48 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
Archdevs,
You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros).
See: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055
With linux on 5.10 and lts on 5.4 it was workable to have lts guests. Now you have linux and linux-lts as the same kernel. How does that make sense?
That was an upstream decision. Linux kernel team moved lts to 5.10, so Arch followed suit.
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
DR
Thanks DR (and all), I understood why it was done, I follow the kernel announcements, etc, but was a bit bewildered by Arch moving LTS to 5.10 before Linux moved to 5.11. Even today, we have: linux 5.10.16.arch1-1 and linux-lts 5.10.17-1 So the LTS kernel is a release ahead of the Arch mainline kernel. It just seemed like as a distro we would want to be a little more coordinated to ensure both linux and linux-lts move in a coordinated way. (sorry for the late reply here, no power for 6 Days 6 Hours due to Texas ice storm... glaring example of all that is wrong with deregulated energy...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.