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Linux To Get "Extended LTS" Releases, Kernel Support For Six Years
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Originally posted by Hi-Angel View PostThat's the level you're talking of: a bunch of registers, and values bouncing between them. You know what values are for, but it is very hard to make up the diagram from out there.
No... just no.
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Originally posted by InsideJob View PostThe six year kernel will probably come out one month after the five year distro and the new Xfce will come out one week after that... because there's absolutely no coordination between these projects and nobody seems to care. Would it really cause corporate anarchy and chaos to make the release 18.05 or 18.06 if it meant a decent kernel for the next half decade?
This has little to do with linux distributions and nothing to do with Xfce... this has really come about because of android, afaict.
As far as coordination; This IS a coordinated effort between all of the parties involved (google, linaro, Silicon manufacturers, vendors, linux devs, etc.)...
Not sure what you are going on about...
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostThe current LTS release is 4.9 not 4.4
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Originally posted by d4ddi0 View PostLonger LTS is the worst possible solution to outdated vendor kernels. If they build against the newest kernel, the set of vendor patches can be continually rebased, which WOULD hugely help them in the development of their next SoC
The current situation in android is getting a device that has a kernel that will reach/be EOL'd within a year or less and maybe get one OS upgrade... this solution will see devices potentially get 4 major OS upgrades and a kernel that has roughly 4yrs of support from release... it would seem to me that the current situation is much worse 😒
The vendors can't just continually target the latest kernel. Mainline and the android (common) kernel tree are not the same thing. (excluding Vendor patches).... linux development just rolls along, vendors need a stable target; that's why LTS exists to begin with....
I think vendors targetting every kernel release would be problematic and wouldn't help with development of their next soc, in the slightest... not only that; there is no android common tree for linux beyond linux-4.4... so I don't see how that would work at all.
Maybe you could explain the specifics and merits to your thinking?
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