Upgrade to Linux 4.x
Originally created by @intrigeri on #10298 (Redmine)
Tails should work on recent hardware. If we don’t do anything special, we’re stuck with Linux 3.16, missing out on the Linux kernel’s hardware support improvements.
Our preferred way to upgrade Tails to Linux 4.x would be to migrate from aufs to overlayfs (#8415 (closed)). We have done a lot of the needed work on our side, but before we go on we are blocked by work that must be done upstream (AppArmor support for overlayfs in the Linux kernel, aka. #9045 (closed)).
If this plan works in time for Tails 3.0 (Debian Stretch), fine: we’ll then have to finish porting Debian Live and Tails -specific bits to overlayfs.
If it does not, then we will have to stick to aufs, which implies building out-of-tree aufs modules ourselves (note that the support patches have been re-introduced in Debian’s Linux kernel, so that is possible now.
In any case, we will also have to deal with other new issues we’ll discover with recent kernels (see subtasks).
Feature Branch: feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs
Subtasks
Related issues
- Related to #11441 (closed)
- Related to #11518 (closed)
- Blocks #7649 (closed)
- Blocks #10289 (closed)
- Blocks #11281 (closed)
- Blocks #8485 (closed)