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 default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, being out-of-date.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.
