Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:49PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > > like a normal j

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Jeffrey, On 12 July 2016 at 09:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I think it would benefit more than Skylake users. The last few > processors are missing support. Below is from a Core i5-5300U (5th > gen) and a 3.19.0-64-generic kernel. > > ** > > $ dmesg | egrep -i '(error|failed)' > ... >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 July 2016 at 18:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 16:01 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > [...] > [...] >> So for radeon hardware enablement, there is 1) the proprietary driver > > fglrx is dead upstream and removed from unstable. (It's still

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 5 July 2016 at 08:40, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > 2016-07-05 7:43 GMT-03:00 Jose R R : >> >> We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for >> arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution >> and we don't really have anything for people who want to

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 July 2016 at 09:12, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre (2016-07-04): >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* ju