[Arm-dev] Kernel bump to 4.11 for aarch64

Marcin Juszkiewicz marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org
Wed Sep 6 17:59:32 UTC 2017


W dniu 06.09.2017 o 18:45, Gordan Bobic pisze:
> If I may be so bold to ask, why the seeming preference for non-LT 
> kernels over LT kernels? Why 4.5 rather than 4.4? Why not 4.9? Why
> 4.11 rather than the already available 4.13 which I believe is the
> next LT release?

> It seems like a lot of necessity for extra work for no benefit and 
> potentially considerable detriment.

I guess that the goal was 'the latest' kernel available before RHEL 7.x
freeze date. That's why not LTS kernels.

AArch64 is still fast moving ground where you may prefer to use latest
available (at time of release freeze) kernel instead of staying on LTS
one + bunch of backports.


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