FS#48574 - Mainline kernel in the official Arch repos

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Fatih (airdroid) - Sunday, 13 March 2016, 22:58 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 13 March 2016, 23:12 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

As Arch Linux users, who want to use bleeding-edge software, I think many of us want to use mainline kernel. But installing it from AUR is very time-consuming and not pleasant. Also new hardwares often make trouble when not using the latest mainline kernel. For example I have a Skylake laptop and my dmesg has lots of errors coming from Intel graphics driver and some other kernel parts. I think some of my problems will be solved when the new stable kernel is released. But later when a new chipset, GPU etc. is released, probably it will also have some problems with the stable kernel. This is inevitable.

In summary, it would be very good for lots of users to have the mainline kernel in the repos.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 13 March 2016, 23:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement

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