Upgrade Linux to 5.7
Process and checklist: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/Linux_kernel/
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Test the new kernel -
Gather other data that will inform our decision -
Make a decision wrt. Tails 4.9 -
Implement the decision -
devel branch: merge !89 (closed) -
stable branch: merge !90 (merged)
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One change that may impact our build system ( config/chroot_local-hooks/50-dkms
):[x86] Enable VBOXSF_FS as a module (Closes: #961516)
← no action needed here, because:- The other 2 VirtualBox modules we're building in that hook (
vboxguest
,vboxvideo
) are also in Linux mainline already.vboxsf
is thus joining the default case with Linux 5.7. - The
virtualbox-dkms
build system ensures we're not building out-of-tree modules that are older than the ones shipped in Linux mainline. -
virtualbox-guest-utils
has a versioned dependency on out-of-tree modules. Presumably there's a good reason to keep the userspace utilities & X.Org drivers in sync with the kernel modules.
- The other 2 VirtualBox modules we're building in that hook (
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Consider removing the exfat-fuse
package, so that exFAT is handled by Linux 5.7's new native exFAT support (exfat-fuse
1.3.0-2 dropped themount.exfat
symlink and became a no-op by default on sid) → not needed, we'll get this for free in Tails 5.0 (http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_debian_and_exfat/)