Re: Can we please have a major fork of Linux into a modern and legacy versions ?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I hear Linux is going to drop a lot of legacy devices including the
> > ones dropped already. I am wondering if we can please have a major
> > fork of Linux into a modern and legacy versions ?
> > 
> > With a consolidation and security updates to the older version.
> 
> If someone wants to take an LTS kernel and volunteer to maintain it,
> including cherrypicking security updates, and making sure that fixes
> in core subsystems don't cause some of these legacy drivers to break,
> anyone can create such a fork.

CIP project is maintaining 4.4 and 4.19 kernels, and will do so for
... few more years. Our trees are here:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/

Best regards,
								Pavel
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