Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 27, 2017 9:23 UTC (Wed) by seyman (subscriber, #1172)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by Priscus
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

> Would it be acceptable to keep a LTS kernel in Fedora (it may already be there, for all I know), and ask the packagers of the proprietary drivers to set a dependency on the LTS kernel specifically?

That was part of the discussion on the devel mailing list but LTS releases rarely align with Fedora's release schedule and the two kernel maintainers are too overworked to maintain their own.

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Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Oct 5, 2017 1:34 UTC (Thu) by khm (subscriber, #108825) [Link] (2 responses)

>That was part of the discussion on the devel mailing list but LTS releases rarely align with Fedora's release schedule and the two kernel maintainers are too overworked to maintain their own.

If you can't integrate updates to the foundational unit of the operating system, it sounds like your release schedule is what's broken, not the legal framework around a video card driver.

Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Oct 5, 2017 1:56 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

Um, the ones having problem integrating updates to "foundational units of the operating system" are the makers of said proprietary video driver.

Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Oct 5, 2017 16:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also, there are lots of "foundational units", and they have distinct release schedules. You can't align to kernel releases *and* X.org releases *and* glibc releases *and* GNOME releases *and* KDE releases *and* Firefox releases *and* LibreOffice releases without releasing every other day.