Fedora kernel update

[poma]

On 15.07.2014 17:41, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A brief update on where things stand in regards to the Fedora kernel.
>
> Greg KH recently announced that the 3.14.y stable kernel will be a
> longterm kernel release.  Given that F19 is evidently very lightly
> used at this point, we're going to remain with 3.14.y until it goes
> EOL.  At the moment, 3.14.8 is in stable updates with 3.14.11 in
> updates-testing.  3.14.12 is built in koji.  Testing and karma on the
> updates-testing releases would be appreciated.
>
> F20 is currently at 3.15.4 with 3.15.5 being pushed likely later
> today.  There have been a few regressions with intel video but
> hopefully those are starting to clear up.  F20 will stay on 3.15.y
> likely until 3.16.1 or 3.16.2 is released.
>
> F21 branched from rawhide last week, but we're keeping the two
> branches in sync for now.  Once 3.16 final is released, we'll evaluate
> where we are in both the Fedora and upstream kernel release cycles and
> see if 3.17 is a good candidate for F21.  At the moment, we're
> planning on sticking with 3.16.
>
> Rawhide will continue to churn through upstream releases as usual.  It
> is at 3.16-rc5 today.  As side note, I never enabled slub debugging
> for the 3.16-rcX builds.  Nobody noticed.  It is possible the people
> that typically testing Rawhide kernels are always using the NoDebug
> repo (or booting with slub_debug=-), but I find it interesting that
> nobody noticed a speedup in the merge window kernels.

We noticed, and we know about it! :)

>
> Lastly, I recently wrote about the kernel-playground Copr.  As of
> yesterday, it is on 3.16-rc5 and contains the latest kdbus and
> overlayfs v23.  There have been a few questions about an F21 build,
> and I plan on doing that once F21 is available as a chroot in Copr.
>
> As always, if you have any questions please email the list.
>
> josh


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