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Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6 0000/1226] 6.6.145-rc2 review Content-Language: en-US To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, pavel@nabladev.com, jonathanh@nvidia.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, rwarsow@gmx.de, conor@kernel.org, hargar@microsoft.com, broonie@kernel.org, achill@achill.org, sr@sladewatkins.com, cc@epic-linux.org References: <20260722143258.264584003@linuxfoundation.org> <88255dcb-acac-4a74-a086-b686aaf15eca@web.de> <2026072333-creed-overbite-b2a9@gregkh> <1e9a0b1d-cc4f-4ac7-ac53-478580181c99@web.de> <2026072447-chloride-plug-638e@gregkh> From: Frank Scheiner In-Reply-To: <2026072447-chloride-plug-638e@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: 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If you >> want to learn more, please head over to: >> >> https://epic-linux.org/ >=20 > Cool, but what happens when these last kernels with support for the > platform goes end-of-life? While running things in emulators is fun, > how will future userspace code that needs newer kernel features ever be > possible? Actually it is already possible: Our autobuilder built and builds all current stable kernel versions. The post 6.6 ones with patches on top (see e.g. [1]), like for mainline. The stable kernels are also run-tested with Ski, which only requires a few extra patches post linux-4.19.y depending on version ([2]). Also we follow glibc and make it "work" for us ([3]). [1]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/tree/__mirror/patches [2]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/ski/tree/hp-sim-for-linux [3]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/glibc-ia64/ I hope I can get qemu-system-ia64 working in GHA in the future, so we can also run-test non-Ski kernels there. Mainline is also tested weekly (most of the time) on real hardware ([4]). So stable kernels post 6.6 always start in a working state. I believe I even tested the older ones at least once on real hardware, too. [4]: https://epic-linux.org/#!machines/ Cheers, Frank