Hi,
On 2/11/21 4:06 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
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.
Ok, so I will backport the patches once 5.12-rc2 is out (going with rc2
not rc1 to add some time for testing).
So where do I submit these once backported ? Do I just add them to dist-git
as before ? AFAIK 5.11 will be the first kernel-ark based Fedora kernel
(at least 5.10 dist-git does not look ark based), right ?
So I'm wondering how we add patches there? I guess merge-reqs to kernel-ark
are not an option since that will be tracking 5.12 at that point.
Regards,
Hans