Canonical Is Taking Over Linux 3.13 Kernel Maintenance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Is Taking Over Linux 3.13 Kernel Maintenance

Greg Kroah-Hartman released the Linux 3.13.11 kernel this week and then called it end-of-life with the Linux 3.14 kernel now being available. However, the Ubuntu Kernel Team at Canonical has now pledged to take up the upstream maintenance of the 3.13 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTY3MTU

[edoantonioco]

What I know is than in Team Fortress 2 the performance of the kernel 3.13 is notably better than the 3.14, I hope it get fixed soon.

[SangeetKhatri]

I hope that they fix the bug that me and many other people having AMD APUs are affected with. It is primarily on AMD APUs running 3.13 kernel. The whole bug report can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309578

As a result of this many people having AMD APUs and particularly MSI boards are unable to install Ubuntu 14.04 into their hardware. Maybe with Ubuntu now maintaining 3.13, this might change. I hope this gets fixed soon. Also Arch with the newer kernel is also having the same bug. Something is weird with new Kernel releases and AMD APU pair.

Meanwhile distros with 3.11 or older works just fine.

[AJenbo]

14.04 is supported for 5 years so what happens af the 2 years?

[Seldon]

14.04 is supported for 5 years so what happens af the 2 years?

The 14.04.1 will be released, i suppose.

[Tundra]

The 14.04.1 will be released, i suppose.

By then there will be several 14.04.x releases.

What happens when a new LTS is released is that the previous one inherits some base packages from the new one, including the kernel, as a mean to improve hardware support.

[mmstick]

I hope that they fix the bug that me and many other people having AMD APUs are affected with. It is primarily on AMD APUs running 3.13 kernel. The whole bug report can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309578

As a result of this many people having AMD APUs and particularly MSI boards are unable to install Ubuntu 14.04 into their hardware. Maybe with Ubuntu now maintaining 3.13, this might change. I hope this gets fixed soon. Also Arch with the newer kernel is also having the same bug. Something is weird with new Kernel releases and AMD APU pair.

Meanwhile distros with 3.11 or older works just fine.

That's just been a long-standing bug ever since kernel 3.13-rc1 released that I reported more than once. The issue is just that you have to disable DPM since DPM is broken for all Radeon HD 6000-based graphics cards, which includes Richland APUs. If you modify grub on the ISO to have radeon.dpm disabled, it works fine. Likewise, if you upgrade to kernel 3.14-3.15 it works fine.

[rikkinho]

nothing

14.04 is supported for 5 years so what happens af the 2 years?

point releases, 4 or 5 will be release (with new kernel and mesa drivers, except the first one) and will continued with security fixes untill the end of 5 years

[AJenbo]

point releases, 4 or 5 will be release (with new kernel and mesa drivers, except the first one) and will continued with security fixes untill the end of 5 years

People who install 12.04.0/1 with the 3.13 kernel won't automatically be moved to the default kernel from later point releases.

[FLHerne]

People who install 12.04.0/1 with the 3.13 kernel won't automatically be moved to the default kernel from later point releases.

So they'll just have to update it manually before 3.13 support ends. That won't be until well after 14.04.2 (and maybe 14.04.3) is out, so everyone should have plenty of time to test with the new kernel before updating live stuff.