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LLTS

Posted Feb 26, 2026 0:21 UTC (Thu) by sashal (✭ supporter ✭, #81842)
In reply to: LLTS by alspnost
Parent article: Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels

Keep in mind that CIP supports only a very narrow set of hardware and kernel configs.

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LLTS

Posted Mar 2, 2026 5:17 UTC (Mon) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

> CIP supports only a very narrow set of hardware

What does this mean in practice?

CIP supports x86-64, 32 bit and 64 bit ARM, and 64 bit RISC-V. Pragmatically, that does not seem so narrow.

Perhaps you mean specific hardware like "AM335x Beaglebone Black". This is true and I guess it means that CIP does not protect you from security problems that originate in drivers for hardware they are not testing against. Is that what you meant?

One of the platforms CIP supports is QEMU on all the architectures listed above. So, you also have the option of running on a virtual machine.