[kernel] Decide which kernels we will support and prune older ones

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[kernel] Decide which kernels we will support and prune older ones #6

Open cuantar opened 4 months ago

cuantar commented 4 months ago

We have kernels in the tree that probably won't apply the updated extra_cpu_optimizations.patch properly. In order to support them, we'll need to add the older patch and change the ebuilds to look for it.

In our tree, we have

debian-sources-6.4.13_p1-r1
debian-sources-6.5.6_p1
debian-sources-6.5.10_p1 (last stable Funtoo kernel; required ramdisk)
debian-sources-6.6.15_p2 (masked; didn't work well with ramdisk?)
debian-sources-6.9.8_p1 (just added)

cuantar commented 4 months ago

It might be useful to make an autogen kernel slot for the LTS branches, in order to match hardware vendor--supplied kernels that require patches.

org-tekeli-borisp commented 4 months ago

As someone using ZFS on root, I'd appreciate having the most recent kernel version that's compatible with ZFS. According to the OpenZFS GitHub page (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases), the latest supported kernel versions go up to 6.8 at the moment.