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Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years

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Le mer. 17 avr. 2019 17:36, Thierry Vilmart <thierry.vilmart@tobii.com> a
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> Hi,
>
> Let me just express my worry that Debian buster and debian based
> distributions like Ubuntu will miss kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2
> years until next Debian release in 2 years.
>
I for one, am not afraid of this. Backports for New major versions have
been available in the past (ex: the 4.x line in Jessie).
One thing I'm rather happy about, in fact, is NOT to undergo a cowboy-style
major version upgrade at gunpoint.

>
>
> fact 1: AMD Free sync needs the kernel 5, and it is a very nice feature
> to adapt the monitor's refresh rate smarter than V-sync, and to avoid
> tearing.
>
> fact 2: kernel 4.19 goes out of life in Dec 2020
>
> As debated on the debian forum.
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=141563
>
> Best Regards
> Thierry Vilmart
>
> fre 2019-04-12 klockan 17:51 +0200 skrev Thierry Vilmart:
> > question:
> >
> > What will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out of life in
> > Dec2020?
> >
> > See EOL for 4.19.
> > https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> >
> >
> > If buster debian 10 has to change the kernel to 5 in Dec 2020, it
> > will
> > be untested. And it would be preferable to have kernel 5 before
> > buster
> > is realeased during the testing phase.
> >
> > Or will you do your own patchsets on an out of life 4.19 kernel?
> >
> > Regards
> > Thierry
> >

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question: what will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out of  life in Dec2020? Thierry Vilmart <thierry.vilmart@tobii.com> - 2019-04-12 20:50 +0200
  Re: question: what will happen to buster when kernel 4.19 goes out  of life in Dec2020? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-04-12 22:40 +0200
  worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss kernel  5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Thierry Vilmart <thierry.vilmart@tobii.com> - 2019-04-17 17:40 +0200
    Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss  kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Eric Degenetais <edegenetais@henix.fr> - 2019-04-17 19:40 +0200
    Re: worry: Debian buster and debian based distributions will miss  kernel 5 and AMD Free Sync for 2 years Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-04-17 23:00 +0200

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