Ubuntu

Kernel Version and Flavors

Registered by Leann Ogasawara

Discussions on the likely mainline kernel version and appropriate kernel flavors for Q.

The current list of arch's and flavor's for Precise are listed below.

Distro - Precise 12.04

Arch: Flavour -- Description

i386: generic -- kernel for desktop machines with less than 4GB of ram
i386: generic-pae -- kernel for desktop machines with more than 4GB of ram
i386: virtual -- kernel for virtual machine use (KVM/EC2)

amd64: generic -- kernel for desktop/server machines
amd64: virtual -- kernel for virtual machine use (KVM/EC2)

armel/armhf: omap -- kernel for ARM OMAP-3 hardware
armel/armhf: omap4 -- kernel for ARM OMAP-4 hardware

Ports - Precise 12.04

Arch: Flavour -- Description

powerpc: powerpc-smp -- PowerPC with SMP support
powerpc: powerpc64-smp -- PowerPC64 with SMP support

Blueprint information

Status:
Started
Approver:
Leann Ogasawara
Priority:
Essential
Drafter:
Leann Ogasawara
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Leann Ogasawara
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for quantal
Implementation:
Beta Available
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-12.10
Started by
Leann Ogasawara

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Work Items

Work items for quantal-alpha-2:
[smb] Investigate what needs to be done to drop crda dependency from the virtual package (see LP#657901): DONE

Work items for quantal-alpha-3:
[canonical-kernel-team] fix up apport to allow ubuntu-bug linux to file a bug when running the 12.10 kernel from the q-lts-backports PPA in 12.04, see LP1004101: DONE
[canonical-kernel-team] update apport hook to or bug bot scripts to automatically tag bug reports 'qa-kernel-lts-testing' when someone reports a bug running the 12.10 lts backport kernel in 12.04: DONE

Work items for ubuntu-12.10-beta-1:
[apw] Get LTS backports automatically uploading to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport: POSTPONED

Work items for ubuntu-12.10:
[leannogasawara] publicise final kernel version after we hit kernel freeze: DONE
[leannogasawara] update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ABIPackages at kernel freeze: DONE

Dependency tree

* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.

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