From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love Subject: why is linux-libre-headers behind linux-libre? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:35:30 +0000 Message-ID: <87bmkn7awd.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9Vlm-00007Q-Rz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:35:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9Vlj-0002hr-PB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:35:50 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55796 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9Vlj-0002hH-Hm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:35:47 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e9VlT-0000mk-Kg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:35:31 +0100 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Why is linux-libre-headers a long way behind linux-libre (currently at version 4.4.47, compared with 4.13.10 for linux-libre)? I ask because current OmniPath fabric support ("psm2") won't build against it, so I wonder if it can be updated. Maybe other recent hardware support will be similar. (I realize the relevant driver, hfi1, is deblobbed in linux-libre.)