Hi, On 2/11/21 7:58 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:32 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 2/11/21 4:06 PM, Justin Forbes wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:19 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was wondering with which kernel version we are planning to ship Fedora 34 gold ? >>>> >>>> I expect 5.12 final to be released on April 19th, which puts it just past the >>>> F34 final freeze. So I was wondering if we are going to stick with 5.11, or >>>> since things are close, do the 5.12-rc7 to final bump during the freeze? >>> >>> Your timeline is off: >>> >>> the v5.12 kernel predictions: merge window closes on Sunday, >>> 2021-03-07 and release on Sunday, 2021-05-02 >>> >>> Fedora 34 will ship with 5.11. Of course we will rebase to 5.12 when >>> it is appropriate to do so. >>> >>>> >>>> The reason I'm asking is that the 5.12 kernel has the kernel interfaces which >>>> power-profile-daemon: >>>> >>>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/settings-mockups/-/blob/master/power/power.png >>>> http://www.hadess.net/2020/09/power-profiles-daemon-new-project.html >>>> >>>> Will use to set the performance (aka platform) profile on for example >>>> ThinkPad laptops. >>>> >>>> So if we are going to ship with 5.12, then everything will be great, >>>> but if we are going to go with 5.11, then I should probably backport >>>> the necessary bits to the Fedora 5.11 kernels (the patches are not that >>>> big, it just took a while for everyone to agree on the userspace API). >>>> >>>> So, what kernel-version are we planning on shipping F34 gold with? >>>> >>> >>> While F34 will ship with 5.11, it should be well past the merge window >>> for 5.12, and I expect those patches will be in linus' tree at that >>> point. If that is the case, I don't see why they can't be brought back >>> to 5.11 if they are non invasive. >> >> Ok, so I will backport the patches once 5.12-rc2 is out (going with rc2 >> not rc1 to add some time for testing). >> >> So where do I submit these once backported ? Do I just add them to dist-git >> as before ? AFAIK 5.11 will be the first kernel-ark based Fedora kernel >> (at least 5.10 dist-git does not look ark based), right ? >> >> So I'm wondering how we add patches there? I guess merge-reqs to kernel-ark >> are not an option since that will be tracking 5.12 at that point. > > > In theory, there will be a fedora-5.11 branch in kernel-ark which > tracks Greg's linux-5.11.y tree. But Greg needs to create the tree > first. There may be some growing pains as this is the first release > we are doing this on. If that tree is not working by the time RC2 is > out or you want to submit, an email to the list is fine. Ok, sounds good. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
