[arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

sL1pKn07 SpinFlo sl1pkn07 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 15:58:18 UTC 2021


El mié, 17 feb 2021 a las 16:51, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
(<arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>) escribió:
>
> 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

Hi

Is strange see the version 5.10 LTS have the EOL in 2022 and the 5.4
in 2025 (4.19 in 2024, 4.14 in 2023, etc)

greetings


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