Control: severity -1 important On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 22:45 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: [...] > I don't know *IF* it's possible to still add hardware support to the 6.1 > kernel which is used in Stable/Bookworm. Assuming the platforms were properly > supported in the upstream 6.1 kernel, then there still has been zero testing > with it on a Debian system, which does not sound ideal for Stable. > One of the Debian kernel maintainers would have to answer whether it is > possible at all for 6.1/Stable/Bookworm. [...]
I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere, but release team policy has been that hardware enablement is allowed in stable updates. (If that involves changes to a driver we already enabled, the benefit has to be weighed against the risk of regressions for previously supported devices. But I don't that's being proposed here.) Even though there won't have been broad testing of the Debian kernel configuration on the Mediatek SoCs, this can't possibly be a regression for them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth
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