Upgrade to Linux 6.0
Why? Improve hardware support, e.g.
- Intel UHD 750: remove the need for the workaround documented in 516a1762
- Update known issues: Graphics cards regressions... (#19353 - closed): some of these regressions should be fixed by upgrading the kernel; some others will also need a newer Mesa/libdrm stack, which we'll only get by upgrading to Bookworm in Tails 6.0
Process: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/Linux_kernel/
Specific issues to take into account:
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Kernel rfkill interface changes in 5.11 requiring userspace fixes
- I believe we don't need to do anything, because this only matters when building gnome-settings-daemon against recent kernel headers, while the source tree includes an old version of
rfkill.h(without the breaking changes) and the Debian package does not build-depends on the Linux headers norlinux-libc-devanyway (and even if it did, that would be Bullseye's headers, not 5.11+ ones). -- intrigeri - Test results: !996 (comment 201360)
- I believe we don't need to do anything, because this only matters when building gnome-settings-daemon against recent kernel headers, while the source tree includes an old version of
- The 5.17 kernel will require some initrd generator changes for kms drivers
- security things in Linux v5.10
- Bundling these could save us some QA and paperwork:
Edited by intrigeri