[arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

[Bruno Pagani]

Le 09/01/2017 à 12:24, Phil Wyett via arch-general a écrit :

> On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 12:06 +0100, fredbezies via arch-general wrote:
>> Sorry to reply to Phil Wyet this way. I enabled digest mode for arch-
>> general.
>>
>> You won't see soon linux 4.9.x in core because it is kinda rotten
>> with
>> some Intel CPUs.
>>
>> You cannot get it to boot on some intel CPUs like an old T4200 or
>> younger ones.
>>
>> See these bugs reports :
>>
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52246
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52271
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52243
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52238

In addition to my previous comment on Arch Policy regarding the kernel,
I should have added: search for bug reports with linux or the next
version in the title. If you use the “Bug reports” button on
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/linux, be sure to
switch “Category” to “All Categories” in the search interface, or you’ll
missed most of them… just like I did when I checked before posting my
previous mail to this thread…

Thanks @fredbezies for pointing those!

>> Two bugs - and maybe more - are opened on kernel bug tracker :
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192111
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191801
>>
>> Looks like linux 4.9 won't be a LTS version at all...

Isn’t 4.10 supposed to be the next LTS rather than 4.9?

>> I own three computers. Because of intel CPU regression in 4.9.xx,
>> both
>> my asus eeePC and my Toshiba Laptop are booting on linux 4.4.xx LTS.
>>
>> Only my main desktop computer which is using an Athlon X2-215 is
>> booting on linux 4.9.x.
>>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the info and bug links.
>
> I have my own issue with 4.9 on a particular machine running an Intel
> Celeron G550 and has Radeon 7700 graphics. I happily ran kernel 4.8.13
> with xorg-server, ati driver (radeon) and mesa from testing. The fun
> came when I added kernel 4.9.1 and during use I got fullscreen RGB
> noise and an underlay square cursor representation. Only recovery from
> that was reset button.
>
> Does this mean we will see 4.8.16 being built and pushed out to users?

This could indeed be done (it’s even 4.8.17 as of today) if 4.9.2 still
doesn’t fix those issues (it has been discussed before that Arch should
continue to package updates to the kernel if the new one isn’t ready for
consumption), but that’s up to @tpowa. ;)

Cheers,
Bruno

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