You can simply install it through "pacman -S kernel26-lts" and edit you bootloader configuration to point to the new ramdisk and kernel image. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:02 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 01/31/10 10:54, Jan de Groot wrote: > >> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:34 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> >>> .... I am new to the list, used Linux since Caldera 2.2. I noticed >>> references to a kernel-lts, labelled as 'long-time-support' on the Arch >>> website. I did a bit of googling& noticed references to such from Arch >>> & Ubuntu forums. I found no references at kernel.org, although I >>> noticed >>> that they listed an upgrade to kernel 2.6.27.45, same number as the >>> '-lts' kernel in Arch. Is the 'lts' kernel project Arch/Ubuntu-specific, >>> or (semi-?) supported from kernel.org ? Also, I noticed that the >>> bleeding edge kernels (seem to) include firmware packages, but I didn't >>> see them for the lts kernels, did I just miss them or are they absent >>> from the 'lts' series of kernels ? TIA .... >>> >>> >> The -lts kernels are stable kernels as maintained by kernel.org people. >> The 2.6.27 kernel has been maintained as stable kernel for 2-3 years >> now. When we added the kernel, our intentions were to have a maintained >> stable kernel that doesn't bring surprises after a security update, >> something that going from 2.6.31 -> 2.6.32 won't offer you. >> >> The firmware binaries were included in drivers before, they've been >> split to standalone files in later versions of the kernel. That's why >> 2.6.27 doesn't come with a -firmware package. >> >> >> > > > > Thanks for the clarifications. Does the Arch installer let me choose the > 'lts' kernel during install, or would I install & then 'downgrade' to it ? > TIA .... > > > > -- > > William A. Mahaffey III > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > > -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
