Rocky Linux 9.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Support, AArch64 64kb Page Size Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rocky Linux 9.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Support, AArch64 64kb Page Size Kernel

Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and AlmaLinux 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.2 is now also available as this alternative community-supported flavor of RHEL...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-9.2

[osw89]

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[elbar]

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[stack]

Greetings,
Full disclosure, I'm the Testing Team lead for Rocky. I saw this article come through our news feed and wanted to add a quick addition I think is important. The reason why we did not release the PowerPC arch for 9.2 is that during our testing we found what we consider a release-breaker bug and we verified it upstream who we are working with to resolve. We can reliably trigger this bug upstream which results in a non-usable system. When it is fixed upstream we will apply the patch and release 9.2. More details are here (including links to the bug report):

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-2-ga-release/

As it is a release-breaker for PPC, it is not a bug on the other arch's. Instead of holding them back and releasing all of 9.2 we decided to hold just PPC.

The Rocky testing process is fairly extensive for this exact reason. We had a lot of the community assisting in confirming and triaging this issue for which we are very grateful.

Thanks for letting me chime in.