On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 2:46 PM <n952...@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently at 4.14.65-gentoo and I understand my cheap hp laptop's
> amdgpu could finally get better support if I upgrade to 4.16 or 4.17.1.
> Can I just do that, or would it be better (or even possible) to go in
> smaller increments?
>
> Also, something's always complaining to me about my profile,
> default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, being out-of-date.  Should I upgrade to
> 17 at the same time?  I've seen lots about the differences between
> different types of profiles but not about the differences between different
> versions of a profile type.  What's different?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>
You can change kernel versions in any way you see fit. You're unlikely to
run into any significant issues from upgrading by 2 or 3 releases at once.

My personal recommendation is to conduct the profile update as a separate
task from the kernel update, simply because they are not really related to
each other.

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