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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources-3.10.x and long-term plans
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:17:42
Message-Id: 20130918101734.GA14631@TranscendTheRubicon.fritz.box
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources-3.10.x and long-term plans by "Andreas Prieß"
1 On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:14:44AM +0200, Andreas Prieß wrote:
2 > Hei!
3 >
4 > I see that hardened-sources-3.10.10 and 3.10.11 were removed because of
5 > bug #485120.
6 >
7 > I just wanted to note that for me the currently stable 3.10.1-r1 has a
8 > reproducible kernel panic while booting on my AMD FX-8150 (something
9 > with init of timer systems IIRC), but 3.9.9. and 3.10.10/11 boot and run
10 > without a problem, so I never cared to report this.
11 >
12 > Since the 3.10 kernel line is the 10th long-term stable release
13 > according to wikipedia I had hoped I could stick with it for a while.
14 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Maintenance
15 >
16 > Are there any plans to keep 3.10 around for some time in Gentoo
17 > hardened? If so it would be nice to get 3.10.11 back in the unstable
18 > tree for the people not affected by bug #485120.
19 >
20 > In any case, thanks to the people providing gentoo hardened!
21
22
23 I hope it's ok to answer for the Gentoo Hardened team (since I'm just a user):
24
25 Grsec upstream won't support 3.10.x but the coming longterm ubuntu kernel (most
26 likely someting around 3.13.x or the like. That will be the next Gentoo
27 longterm kernel too, I presume.
28 IIRC there ma be a 3.10.x longterm release with hardened patches and backports
29 but not from the official grsec/PaX upstream but by ncopa (iirc again for
30 Alpine Linux). The Github Repo is here:
31 https://github.com/ncopa/linux-stable-grsec/tree/linux-3.10.y-grsec
32
33 WKR
34 Hinnerk

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