On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:54:06PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:46:40 +0200 >> Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de> wrote: >>> >>> What is the minimum kernel version for the upcoming Jessie? Can I rely >>> on that this does no change after the freeze? (IIRC at Nov 5th) >> >> Considering one should be always able to do apt-get dist-upgrade from >> wheezy to jessie (and that means using wheezy's kernel with jessie's >> userland, at least temporary), it should be safe to assume that minimum >> kernel requirement for jessie's userland is 2.6.32. > > This isn't really a safe assumption. There have been transitions in the > past (such as udev) where the dist-upgrade should be performed as: > * Update sources.list > * Install new kernel and new udev > * Reboot > * Proceed with dist-upgrade > > After the reboot, you're then running on the previous release's userland > with the current release's kernel. That situation SHOULD be more stable > than the other way around as kernels /rarely/ remove functionality. But > if you run new userland on an old kernel, and it tries to call > functionality that's not there, you can run into trouble. > >> Since wheezy's kernel version is fixed for its lifetime, it's highly >> unlikely that such requirement will change in the future.
Furthermore, Wheezy's kernel is 3.2 not 2.6.32. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sy7VYv6kv8_fUJb1XR4rPYv7ScWi2==oycmdpuawj-...@mail.gmail.com
