On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:09 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > sergio.callegari wrote: > > Testing whether a backported intrepid kernel breaks something > > on hardy would probably be a much faster and more useful effort. > > > > It would be very valuable to give Hardy users the ability to test the > Intrepid kernel. Ben, is there a PPA where we build the Intrepid > kernel for Hardy, so we can invite folks to test for hardware > regressions?
Installing the intrepid kernel on hardy is very simple and doesn't need a recompile against hardy to work. In fact, an intrepid kernel image should run with no problems on systems as far back as feisty. The only issue is linux-restricted-modules, which isn't as easy to install without a recompile, and quite frankly, the effort to make that compile and work on pre-intrepid is way too much overhead for us to make it worth it. As far as a PPA, we've discussed this, and we just don't want the barrier that low for people to run bleeding edge kernels on released systems, since it may detract from people doing full testing of intrepid. So, if it's standard kernel testing, then they just need to add intrepid to sources.list, install the new kernel, and revert sources.list back to hardy (or just download the .deb and debi it). Hope this helps! -- Linux kernel 2.6.24-12 lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
