I have a number of machines with i7-8700K CPUs and am relying on the onboard graphics, which means that 4.14 is right out.
Currently I'm just setting up the rawhide-kernel-nodebug repo and using that, which is great but I'm not sure what I should do once 4.15 is released. Will the repo then start following the 4.16 merge window? Or will it stick with 4.15 releases until F28 branches?
My concern is that the repo will immediately move on to tracking the 4.16 merge window which I don't really want to try to use on a user desktop. And since F27 probably isn't going to jump straight to 4.15 releases, I won't have a stable release to follow which also has functioning graphics.
I can of course just build my own packages at that point but it does take a bit of effort and I'm wondering if I need to plan for it. I'm certainly not asking for anyone to build kernels for me or alter release plans or anything like that.
Thanks!
- J<
Lo! On 27.01.2018 03:00, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I have a number of machines with i7-8700K CPUs and am relying on the onboard graphics, which means that 4.14 is right out.
FWIW: 4.14 afaics should work on a lot of Coffee Lake machines if you boot with i915.alpha_support=1
[…] My concern is that the repo will immediately move on to tracking the 4.16 merge window which I don't really want to try to use on a user desktop. And since F27 probably isn't going to jump straight to 4.15 releases, I won't have a stable release to follow which also has functioning graphics.
Once 4.15 is out you could use the "kernel-vanilla-stable" repo from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories , which will get 4.15 (and 4.15.1, 4.15.2, ...) once its out.
Another alternative is https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jforbes/kernel-stabilization/ in case Justin is setting it up again to stabilize 4.15 (which I assume he will).
HTH, Cu, knurd
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:33 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
Lo! On 27.01.2018 03:00, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I have a number of machines with i7-8700K CPUs and am relying on the onboard graphics, which means that 4.14 is right out.
FWIW: 4.14 afaics should work on a lot of Coffee Lake machines if you boot with i915.alpha_support=1
[…] My concern is that the repo will immediately move on to tracking the 4.16 merge window which I don't really want to try to use on a user desktop. And since F27 probably isn't going to jump straight to 4.15 releases, I won't have a stable release to follow which also has functioning graphics.
Once 4.15 is out you could use the "kernel-vanilla-stable" repo from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories , which will get 4.15 (and 4.15.1, 4.15.2, ...) once its out.
Another alternative is https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jforbes/kernel-stabilization/ in case Justin is setting it up again to stabilize 4.15 (which I assume he will).
Yes, the stabilization copr will be maintained until the F27 rebase is pushed.
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