The proliferation of kernel packages (plan to drop nopae, 4.4 and 4.14)

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, Marcin Krol wrote:

> On 23-Jan-20 12:36, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> > I want to drop nopae, 4.4 and 4.14 kernels from Th,
> > leaving us with longterm releases 4.9 (the last kernel that supports vserver),
> > 4.19, 5.4 and a latest stable.
> >
> > Thoughs? Cons?
> 
> 4.14 has longest planned support - up to Jan 2024 while 4.19 will EOL on 
> Dec 2020 and 5.4 will EOL on Dec 2021. It may be a good idea to keep 
> 4.14. Of course these date may change in future.

Good point.

That said, I will soon drop 4.4, 4.19 and nopae kernel.

And disable PAE on i686 kernel on head.

https://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/linus-torvalds-about-pae/

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