From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Any objections to removing linux-libre@4.1? Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:50:03 -0400 Message-ID: <87lgp15cn8.fsf@netris.org> References: <87wp8suvs4.fsf@netris.org> <87y3t2eeh7.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJN76-0002d0-4F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:50:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJN73-0001YG-2a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:50:20 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:39165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJN72-0001Y6-TW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:50:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y3t2eeh7.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:33:24 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Does anyone here still need linux-libre@4.1 in Guix? If not, I'd like >> to remove it. > > Is this not the only version of Linux libre that does not expose the > system clock bug Libreboot users suffer from? I don't know. I had a vague recollection of hearing that the problem has since been resolved, but I'm not sure. > I=E2=80=99m still using 4.1 on one of my machines for that reason until I= can > upgrade Libreboot. Okay, we can hold off on removing it for now. However, Sasha Levin (the upstream linux-4.1.x maintainer) told me that this series will reach end-of-life in 2 months, at which point it will stop receiving security updates. At that point we'll need to remove 4.1 and find another solution for Libreboot users, if needed. One option would be to add a much older LTS kernel. Of those, the most well maintained (judging solely by the dates of their most recent release) seem to be 3.16 and 3.2. Mark