[gentoo-user] What's wrong with 4.16.X?

[gentoo-user] What's wrong with 4.16.X?

[Konstantinos Agouros]

Hi,

I have a Ryzen system running, so I used 4.16 as a few features are only
available there. Using ~amd64 for newer versions. Why is non ~ stuck with 4.14 
now?

As 4.16 is already removed from gentoo-sources I am kind of stuck with a 
non existing package.

Konstantin
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with 4.16.X?

[Jack]

On 08/04/2018 09:52 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Ryzen system running, so I used 4.16 as a few features are only
> available there. Using ~amd64 for newer versions. Why is non ~ stuck with 4.14
> now?
>
> As 4.16 is already removed from gentoo-sources I am kind of stuck with a
> non existing package.
>
> Konstantin
I'm     not absolutely certain, but I vaguely remember a decision for 
gentoo-sources regarding which would be marked stable.  It might be that 
only LTS kernels will ever get marked stable.  I think it was because 
the non-LTS releases were just too fast and frequent to allow the 
stabilization process to work well.  It isn't an actual comment on 
stability, but a result of work-flow.

Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with 4.16.X?

[Mart Raudsepp]

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Ühel kenal päeval, L, 04.08.2018 kell 13:52, kirjutas Konstantinos
Agouros:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Ryzen system running, so I used 4.16 as a few features are
> only
> available there. Using ~amd64 for newer versions. Why is non ~ stuck
> with 4.14 
> now?
> 
> As 4.16 is already removed from gentoo-sources I am kind of stuck
> with a 
> non existing package.

4.14 is the LTS (long term support) kernel, thus that will have stable
keywords only.
4.16 is EOL (end of life) and doesn't receive fixes anymore, so it was
removed from the main tree.
4.17 is the new non-LTS series that still receives updates, so you
probably want to upgrade to that, if you don't want to downgrade (or
can't due to suboptimal Ryzen support there). In that case you want to
upgrade to new series in a timely manner until at least a new LTS
appears - then you could stick to that one instead (stable versions).

See the nomenclature also on https://www.kernel.org/


Mart

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's wrong with 4.16.X?

[Konstantinos Agouros]

In <1533396747.28143.2.camel@gentoo.org> leio@gentoo.org (Mart Raudsepp) writes:


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>s
>Agouros:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>4.14 is the LTS (long term support) kernel, thus that will have stable
>keywords only.
>4.16 is EOL (end of life) and doesn't receive fixes anymore, so it was
>removed from the main tree.
>4.17 is the new non-LTS series that still receives updates, so you
>probably want to upgrade to that, if you don't want to downgrade (or
>can't due to suboptimal Ryzen support there). In that case you want to
>upgrade to new series in a timely manner until at least a new LTS
>appears - then you could stick to that one instead (stable versions).

>See the nomenclature also on https://www.kernel.org/
Thanks for the clarification


>Mart
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