On 06/10/12 23:05, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am 06.10.2012 19:02, schrieb Yves Blusseau: >> Hi all, >> >> just for my information, why do we use the 3.2 kernel for BuC ? >> >> Why not using the 3.4 or 3.5 stable versions ? >> Or the upcoming 3.6 branch that will have good optimizations for network >> like TCP Small Queues or TCP Fast Open ? > Hello Yves; > > the reason ist that the 3.2 kernel is a kernel with long time support. > 3.2 has been chossen by Debian and Ubuntu for their stable/LTS, which > means that it will be supported for 5 years. So it's a good and stable > base to develop 5.0. > > Once we have 5.0 finished we may decide to move to a newer kernel, until > then I'll prefer to go with a kernel supported that long time. > > kp Also dont forget that now LEAF isn't heavily dependent of kernel version - we can provide different kernels (with corresponding initmod, moddb and modules.tgz) that will work with same userland. Earlier userland initrd was dependent of kernel because it had included modules.
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