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Issue created Jun 26, 2020 by intrigeri@intrigeriMaintainer8 of 8 checklist items completed8/8 checklist items

Upgrade Linux to 5.7

Process and checklist: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/Linux_kernel/

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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 the mount.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/)
Edited Jul 23, 2020 by intrigeri
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