Re: version bump of minimal kernel version supported by systemd?

[Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 4:30 PM Michael Biebl <mbiebl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As far as Debian is concerned, we do have
>
> 4.9.x in old old stable aka stretch
> 4.19.x in old stable aka buster
> 5.10.x in stable aka bullseye
> 5.16.x in unstable/bookworm
>
> We do provide backports of current systemd versions for bullseye. I
> also do care that users upgrading from bullseye to bookworm can
> continue to use the old stable kernel, which would be 5.10.x
> So all in all, not an issue from the Debian side, as this would mean
> the baseline would be 5.10.x
>
> Obviously I can't speak for all our downstreams (like raspbian) or
> individual users with their self-compiled kernels.
> Which I guess is more common among Debian then e.g. Fedora users.
>

It's not *super-common* for Fedora users, but it *is* common in
CentOS. There's an active backport of the latest systemd to CentOS
Stream 8, which is a 4.18 kernel with backports of stuff across the
board. So I would personally like for the latest systemd to work on
CentOS/RHEL 8 still.


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