Thanks Ben, that really helps. I'm going to check more about intrusiveness of the patch sets. Regards,
F. > > Hi, > > several patch sets have been pushed upstream linux (few did not reach it > > yet) concerning additional Power9 support (next 4.11 should support P9 > > pretty well). > > Several of these sets were cherrypicked by Canonical into Zesty Zapus > > (4.10.0 kernel). > > > > I understand stretch is going to have linux kernel 4.9.18 > > It will be 4.9.something. > > > and experimental has 4.10 at the moment. > > > > If I want to see those enablements into Debian, what is my best option ? :) > > - submit backports of those sets into stretch's 4.9.18 : I'm not sure the > > Debian > > policy would allow that easily, right ? > > It really depends on how intrusive they are. > > > According to > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch03.en.html#maintain-stable > > those patches should be related to important bugs. As far as P9 is > > concerned, what does it correspond to ? > > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-bugs.html#s9.1.2 seems to > > say that hardware support can lead to "important" bugs. > > Yes, missing support for POWER9 would be 'important'. > > > - can we expect an upgrade to 4.10 or 4.11 in Stretch in a later point > > release ? > > No, we don't make major version updates in point releases. > > > - when to expect 4.11 in Debian unstable/expererimental ? > > Should be in experimental shortly after it's released. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your > sig.
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