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On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 2:46 PM <n952162@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm currently at 4.14.65-gentoo and I understand my cheap hp laptop's |
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> amdgpu could finally get better support if I upgrade to 4.16 or 4.17.1. |
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> Can I just do that, or would it be better (or even possible) to go in |
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> smaller increments? |
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> Also, something's always complaining to me about my profile, |
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> default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, being out-of-date. Should I upgrade to |
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> 17 at the same time? I've seen lots about the differences between |
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> different types of profiles but not about the differences between different |
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> versions of a profile type. What's different? |
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> Thanks for any thoughts. |
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You can change kernel versions in any way you see fit. You're unlikely to |
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run into any significant issues from upgrading by 2 or 3 releases at once. |
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My personal recommendation is to conduct the profile update as a separate |
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task from the kernel update, simply because they are not really related to |
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each other. |
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