Comment 308 for bug 204996

This has been asked many times (including myself). Unfortunately, the answer so far has not been positive:

1) Switching hardy to the 2.6.25 kernel has been excluded as a "jump in the dark".
2) Providing two alternative kernel versions for hardy (namely both 2.6.24 and 2.6.25) has been indicated as not sustainable with the resources of the ubuntu kernel team.

The closest we got is:

a) an interview (to Mark Shuttleworth, if I remember correctly) where it is said that due to the very long support time of hardy (5 years on server) hardy might eventually switch to a more modern kernel when it becomes impossible to support 2.6.24 (cannot find the link, sorry).

b) an email on this very list, again by Mark Shuttleworth suggesting that it would be very valuable to give Hardy users the ability to test the Intrepid kernel. Unfortunately, in applying this proposal there is there is an apparent need to compromise since kernel developers do not want to decrease the motivation to test the intrepid codebase as a whole. The situation so far is that the intrepid kernel (2.6.26) can be installed on hardy, but not its kernel headers (and not either the restricted modules from what I heard).

Personally, what I have done so far on all the machines I am responsible for is using ubuntu without the hardy kernel, having compiled a 2.6.25 and then a 2.6.26 from kernel.org with make-kpkg that gives you nice deb packages. It is a bit of a pain to upgrade whenever a new patchset comes out for 2.6.26... but... still better than the lockups. In any case, 8.10 is not that far away now, so lets just hope this times it takes the same kernel version as fedora or opensuse.