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Kernel Mainlining & LTS #5

Closed Izaic closed 5 years ago

Izaic commented 5 years ago

What's the reason for the old 4.4 kernel? No mainline for the rockchip SOC used for the pinebook pro? Or is it the gpu? (or both)

This seems like it's going to be a big security and longevity problem to be using a old kernel.

I imagine the panfrost drivers are usable enough that they'd be okay for basic video and desktop?

schaecsn commented 5 years ago

The 4.4 kernel here is a fork from Rockchip https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel. Perhaps ask the Rockchip community why they don't keep up with mainline.

Note, 4.4 is a longterm kernel so security is not a problem (yet).