[arch-general] kernel-lts ....

[Flavio Costa]

You can simply install it through "pacman -S kernel26-lts" and edit you
bootloader configuration to point to the new ramdisk and kernel image.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:02 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>wrote:

> On 01/31/10 10:54, Jan de Groot wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:34 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>>> .... I am new to the list, used Linux since Caldera 2.2. I noticed
>>> references to a kernel-lts, labelled as 'long-time-support' on the Arch
>>> website. I did a bit of googling&  noticed references to such from Arch
>>> &  Ubuntu forums. I found no references at kernel.org, although I
>>> noticed
>>> that they listed an upgrade to kernel 2.6.27.45, same number as the
>>> '-lts' kernel in Arch. Is the 'lts' kernel project Arch/Ubuntu-specific,
>>> or (semi-?) supported from kernel.org ? Also, I noticed that the
>>> bleeding edge kernels (seem to) include firmware packages, but I didn't
>>> see them for the lts kernels, did I just miss them or are they absent
>>> from the 'lts' series of kernels ? TIA ....
>>>
>>>
>> The -lts kernels are stable kernels as maintained by kernel.org people.
>> The 2.6.27 kernel has been maintained as stable kernel for 2-3 years
>> now. When we added the kernel, our intentions were to have a maintained
>> stable kernel that doesn't bring surprises after a security update,
>> something that going from 2.6.31 ->  2.6.32 won't offer you.
>>
>> The firmware binaries were included in drivers before, they've been
>> split to standalone files in later versions of the kernel. That's why
>> 2.6.27 doesn't come with a -firmware package.
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Thanks for the clarifications. Does the Arch installer let me choose the
> 'lts' kernel during install, or would I install & then 'downgrade' to it ?
> TIA ....
>
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Flávio Coutinho da Costa