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    Linux 4.19 coming to Raspbian soon

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      hhromic
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      Hi all,
      For the more techie users, this is kind of nice news:

      "The Raspberry Pi Foundation today started rolling out an update that brings its devices to the Linux 4.19 kernel."
      https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-updates-to-linux-419,38672.html

      @psyke83 this sounds particularly useful for the sixaxis scriptmodule too, i.e. probaly not needing a custom hid driver anymore as it will come in the kernel.

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        psyke83 Global Moderator
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        A new kernel will fix the USB rumbling issue for Shanwan controllers, but there's no upstream fix for Gasia BT pairing issue in the newer kernel's driver. Still, it's nice to see a new kernel coming for the Pi.

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          psyke83 Global Moderator
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          It seems that the new kernel is now in Raspbian's repo. It would probably be a good idea to check for compatibility issues with our available dkms modules (and other potential issues beyond that).

          Edit: jumped the gun a bit. It's a preparatory update before the kernel version bump: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/releases/tag/1.20190401

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            mitu Global Moderator @psyke83
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            4.19 has has been in the RP Linux repo for quite some time in testing and had a lot of updates. It can be installed through rpi-update if anyone wants to give it a go.

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              psyke83 Global Moderator @mitu
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              @mitu said in Linux 4.19 coming to Raspbian soon:

              4.19 has has been in the RP Linux repo for quite some time in testing and had a lot of updates. It can be installed through rpi-update if anyone wants to give it a go.

              Yes, although rpi-update can cause trouble due to it installing additional files that can cause conflicts (such as the old EGL library names, which should be omitted).

              The kernel upgrade was blocked for some time due to a memory leak in cgroups, but it looks like they're going to proceed with the upgrade (with cgroups disabled): https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=224931&sid=d88d36c5c6922cea51d364816185e739&start=150#p1451776

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                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by mitu

                And it seems to be rolling out now - 1.20190401-1 is in the repository, so there's no need for rpi-update.

                EDIT: eh, spoke to soon, 1.20190401-1 is still at 4.14.

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