On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:19 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering with which kernel version we are planning to ship Fedora 34 gold ?
I expect 5.12 final to be released on April 19th, which puts it just past the
F34 final freeze. So I was wondering if we are going to stick with 5.11, or
since things are close, do the 5.12-rc7 to final bump during the freeze?
Your timeline is off:
the v5.12 kernel predictions: merge window closes on Sunday,
2021-03-07 and release on Sunday, 2021-05-02
Fedora 34 will ship with 5.11. Of course we will rebase to 5.12 when
it is appropriate to do so.
The reason I'm asking is that the 5.12 kernel has the kernel interfaces which
power-profile-daemon:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/settings-mockups/-/blob/master/powe...
http://www.hadess.net/2020/09/power-profiles-daemon-new-project.html
Will use to set the performance (aka platform) profile on for example
ThinkPad laptops.
So if we are going to ship with 5.12, then everything will be great,
but if we are going to go with 5.11, then I should probably backport
the necessary bits to the Fedora 5.11 kernels (the patches are not that
big, it just took a while for everyone to agree on the userspace API).
So, what kernel-version are we planning on shipping F34 gold with?
While F34 will ship with 5.11, it should be well past the merge window
for 5.12, and I expect those patches will be in linus' tree at that
point. If that is the case, I don't see why they can't be brought back
to 5.11 if they are non invasive.
Justin