Comment 281 for bug 204996

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:09 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> sergio.callegari wrote:
> > Testing whether a backported intrepid kernel breaks something
> > on hardy would probably be a much faster and more useful effort.
> >
>
> It would be very valuable to give Hardy users the ability to test the
> Intrepid kernel. Ben, is there a PPA where we build the Intrepid
> kernel for Hardy, so we can invite folks to test for hardware
> regressions?

Installing the intrepid kernel on hardy is very simple and doesn't need
a recompile against hardy to work. In fact, an intrepid kernel image
should run with no problems on systems as far back as feisty.

The only issue is linux-restricted-modules, which isn't as easy to
install without a recompile, and quite frankly, the effort to make that
compile and work on pre-intrepid is way too much overhead for us to make
it worth it.

As far as a PPA, we've discussed this, and we just don't want the
barrier that low for people to run bleeding edge kernels on released
systems, since it may detract from people doing full testing of
intrepid.

So, if it's standard kernel testing, then they just need to add intrepid
to sources.list, install the new kernel, and revert sources.list back to
hardy (or just download the .deb and debi it).

Hope this helps!