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

2017-01-10 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 16:55 +, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > ... > > > > Looks like there are some patches to try and are being tested for > kernel > 4.9 - see https://bugz

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

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 01/10/2017 08:53 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes >> with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not >> upholding a important fixes only p

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

2017-01-10 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 01/10/2017 08:53 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes > with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not > upholding a important fixes only policy. That would depend on whether you understand "stable" to be "LTS" or

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

2017-01-10 Thread Mike Cloaked via arch-general
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > FYI, 4.8 has been EOL'd, leaving 4.4-lts, 4.1-lts as options for > arch "default" kernel until 4.10 is released if we assume that > there's a critical fix in the stable patch queue. > > My crit

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

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
FYI, 4.8 has been EOL'd, leaving 4.4-lts, 4.1-lts as options for arch "default" kernel until 4.10 is released if we assume that there's a critical fix in the stable patch queue. My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not

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

2017-01-09 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 09/01/2017 à 20:18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general a écrit : > On 01/09/2017 02:07 PM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: >>> 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 i

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

2017-01-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 01/09/2017 02:07 PM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: >> 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

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

2017-01-09 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
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

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

2017-01-09 Thread Phil Wyett via arch-general
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

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

2017-01-09 Thread fredbezies via arch-general
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.o