On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Jeff Andich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In general what is the support life of BeagleBoard/BeagleBone images?
Well, users are still using the 3.8.13 bone kernel on Debian 9.1 I've personally tried to just kill the 3.8.13 line, but it lives on... The image you have installed, should just keep on working.. > > We're baselined on the "last" BB-X15 image with Debian 8.6 and kernel > 4.4.30, but with a later u-boot, 2017.01. > > Our software team is running a .Net application over Mono version 8, and > highly discourages any upgrades to Debian unless absolutely necessary. > > However, if we take the decision to not upgrade to Debian 9.1 now, I'm not > sure what issues this could cause us now with board bring-up and peripheral > integration. When I talked to a couple of engineers at the ELC in Portland > they implied that newer kernel is generally better, sighting the difficulty > of back-porting new drivers to older kernel. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS <quote> Debian 8 “Jessie” i386, amd64, armel and armhf (?) from June 2018 to end of April 2020 </quote> > Also, we could try to integrate Debian 8 with a newer kernel, but that might > be more difficult than just switching to a BB-X15 image with Debian 9.. You can install 4.9.x-ti in debian 8: cd /opt/scripts/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh --ti-channel --lts-4_9 (remember debian 8.x shipped from debian.org with a baseline 3.16.x based kernel) > Anyone have any thoughts on this which maybe relevant to the general > community? The only thing that's changed from Debian 7.x, Debian 8.x, & Debian 9.x BeagleBoard images: Debian 7.x: nodejs v0.10.x is just too old, can't "regenerate" any images... Debian 8.x: moved to a "monthy" release snapshot, default kernel from me will be "v4.4.x", the whole userspace is maintenance only mode. Debian 9.x: currently doing a "weekly" release snapshot, default kernel is a mixture of "v4.4.x/v4.9.x" will be v4.9.x in a few months, and v4.14.x by next summer.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYiy3sUNp58TRWguBT5C_Nd2gsF46iPp4taq%3DXGujP0jhQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
