Fedora Prepares To Roll-Out Linux 5.4 Kernel Update But Needs Help Testing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Prepares To Roll-Out Linux 5.4 Kernel Update But Needs Help Testing

Fedora users eager to see the Linux 5.4 stable kernel can engage by helping to test their newly-spun 5.4-based kernel image prior to it officially landing as a stable release update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Linux-5.4-Testing

[Britoid]

Fedora remains one of the few non-rolling-release distributions that is willing to send down major kernel updates as part of their stable release updates for existing distributions.

Fedora's update policy is awesome and one of the biggest reasons I use it.

[brent]

And Intel still hasn't backported the RC6 regression fix. This should have top priority, but apparently, Intel's Linux team hardly cares.

[ernstp]

Do they have Navi firmware already?

[deadite66]

Hit a fuse problem (kernel tried to execute NX-protected page) with 5.4, though not seeing other reports yet, filled a bug on kernel.org.

[Britoid]

Do they have Navi firmware already?

Yes. Fedora 31 is currently on linux-firmware-20191022-103 which has the navi firmware.

[ernstp]

Yes. Fedora 31 is currently on linux-firmware-20191022-103 which has the navi firmware.

Right, so this will be a pretty good image to recommend to someone for good out-of-the box 5700 support.

[Britoid]

Right, so this will be a pretty good image to recommend to someone for good out-of-the box 5700 support.

I'd recommend the respins (updated isos) for new hardware.

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/

[birdie]

Fedora's update policy is awesome and one of the biggest reasons I use it.

With new major software releases, however come new major bugs, so it's not just a win-win situation - more like a lottery where either your bugs get resolved and you're happy, or for another user, new bugs are introduced and he's unhappy.

Couple that with the fact that Fedora doesn't support the rollback to previous packages versions (except the ones published at the time of a new release) - it all gets quite nasty.

[240Hz]

Why do people beta test for redhat for free?