Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4.277-rt224

Hi!

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Sorry for the long delay. I was refactoring and improving my test
setup which took a bit longer than I expected. I switched from a
Debian based rootfs to an Tumbleweed based one, for obvious
reasons. Anyway, this should not matter at all.

A bit late thanks for the release, BTW. We are maintaining -cip-rt
based kernels, and were getting worried :-).

Sorry about that. I should have send out a note earlier. Anyway, I'll
plan to work on the next update soon. There are a few futex changes
which collide. It's going to be interesting.

FYI we are on 2 month cycle for -cip-rt, so we are still fine for a
while. We had trouble coordinating matching -cip and -rt releases, but
we decided to adjust -cip cycle to match -rt, so that should be solved.

BTW, as you certainly are aware, the v4.4 kernel is EOL soon. As I
understand the CIP is going to take over the maintenance. So I assume
you are going to care of the -rt version as well?

We are aware, but I don't think we decided what will happen at that
point (and I can't really speak for the project). We plan to maintain
-cip and -cip-rt variants till 2027:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start

Taking over -stable and -stable-rt maintainance, too, is something
that may make sense (and we probably will be considered), but it is
likely CIP Technical Steering Committee's (“TSC”) decision.

https://www.cip-project.org/about/charter

Actually, your input may be important here. If you (or SuSE or someone
else) can put some resources into 4.4-rt after February 2022, that
would be good to know.

Best regards,
								Pavel
(Again I don't speak for the project)
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