[Arm-dev] Kernel bump to 4.11 for aarch64

Wed Sep 6 17:16:18 UTC 2017
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>

I don't know. These are the kernels RH has chosen for their arm64
platform, I'm matching their decisions and adding enhancements as I can.

On 09/06/2017 09:45 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org
> <mailto:jperrin at centos.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I've just pushed the 4.11 kernel rebase into git (
>     https://git.centos.org/summary/?r=sig-altarch/kernel
>     <https://git.centos.org/summary/?r=sig-altarch/kernel> )
> 
>     The previous patches included in the 4.5 kernel have been dropped as the
>     majority either are now included or no longer apply cleanly. Please take
>     a look at configs listed and submit patches for things you'd like to see
>     enabled. This 4.11 base will be coming out shortly as part of the
>     7.4.1708 build.
> 
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