Kernel 4.7 rebase plans

[Laura Abbott]

Hi,

I just submitted the 4.6.6 kernel update to stable for F23/F24. Both
4.7.1 and 4.6.7 are expected to be released upstream on Tuesday. 4.6.7
will be the last 4.6.y based kernel for F23/F24. 4.7.1 or 4.7.2 will
be available for testing sometime early next week.

If you have any questions please let us know.

Thanks,
Laura

[Justin Forbes]

As a follow up, we are aware that the nvidia driver does not currently work
with the 4.7 kernel. Nvidia is aware, and given their history of monthly
releases, I expect they will have a working release this week.  Should they
fail to do so, I will do a blog post with a workaround.

Justin

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Laura Abbott  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just submitted the 4.6.6 kernel update to stable for F23/F24. Both
> 4.7.1 and 4.6.7 are expected to be released upstream on Tuesday. 4.6.7
> will be the last 4.6.y based kernel for F23/F24. 4.7.1 or 4.7.2 will
> be available for testing sometime early next week.
>
> If you have any questions please let us know.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
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[Edward O'Callaghan]

Hi,

Is there any movement on this? Sorry to rush but, without 4.7, polaris GPU's are unsupported. Thus the changesets in amdgpu are critical for that hw bringup, hence *really* looking forward to this hitting atleast testing as soon as ideally possible. :/

Kind Regards,
Edward.

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Edward O'Callaghan
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any movement on this? Sorry to rush but, without 4.7, polaris GPU's are unsupported. Thus the changesets in amdgpu are critical for that hw bringup, hence *really* looking forward to this hitting atleast testing as soon as ideally possible. :/

Why wouldn't you use the rawhide kernel for that purpose?

josh

[Edward O'Callaghan]

I am currently + linux-firmware testing. Problem is I am setting this box up for a non-technical user you see.. :/ testing packages means its easier for him to do a system update and smoothly progress into a 'normal' system once they hit stable. Hope that logic makes sense..

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Edward O'Callaghan
 wrote:
> I am currently + linux-firmware testing. Problem is I am setting this box up for a non-technical user you see.. :/ testing packages means its easier for him to do a system update and smoothly progress into a 'normal' system once they hit stable. Hope that logic makes sense..

OK.

4.7.2 came out Saturday.  I would expect that to be the rebase version.

josh

[Laura Abbott]

On 08/15/2016 08:31 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just submitted the 4.6.6 kernel update to stable for F23/F24. Both
> 4.7.1 and 4.6.7 are expected to be released upstream on Tuesday. 4.6.7
> will be the last 4.6.y based kernel for F23/F24. 4.7.1 or 4.7.2 will
> be available for testing sometime early next week.
>
> If you have any questions please let us know.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura

4.7.2 is now available in bodhi for testing. If you are still running
F23, please make extra sure to give karma since there is already
starting to be some fall off in activity.

Thanks,
Laura

[Laura Abbott]

On 08/23/2016 02:38 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 08/15/2016 08:31 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just submitted the 4.6.6 kernel update to stable for F23/F24. Both
> > 4.7.1 and 4.6.7 are expected to be released upstream on Tuesday. 4.6.7
> > will be the last 4.6.y based kernel for F23/F24. 4.7.1 or 4.7.2 will
> > be available for testing sometime early next week.
> >
> > If you have any questions please let us know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Laura
>
> 4.7.2 is now available in bodhi for testing. If you are still running
> F23, please make extra sure to give karma since there is already
> starting to be some fall off in activity.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura

I ended up doing an incremental build on top of 4.7.2 to bring in a
few important fixes. Everything else in 4.7.2 looked fairly good so
my plan is to push 4.7.2-{1,2}01 to stable as soon as it gets enough
karma.

Please test and give karma again. A reminder that if you do find
regressions please note on the bodhi update corresponding to the
kernel you tested AND file a bugzilla with information.

Thanks,
Laura