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Hi Greg,

On 1/12/23 13:23, Kris Chaplin wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
>> You tell me please.  How has your testing gone for 6.1 so far?  Does it
>> work properly for you?  Are you and/or your company willing to test out
>> the -rc releases and provide feedback if it works or not for your
>> systems?  Do you have problems with 6.1.y vs. older kernels?  Is there
>> anything missing in it that you feel needs to be addressed with a newer
>> kernel instead?
> 
> We have been integrating and testing 6.1 on the Microblaze, ARM32 and
> ARM64-bit architectures over the past few weeks.  These builds have
> been successful and we are able to run our regression tests on hardware
> targeting our FPGA SoC devices.
> 
> We're continuing our tests as new updates to the 6.1 kernel series
> appear.

As Kris said AMD/Xilinx has already moved internal SOC tree to 6.1 based kernel 
in expectation that 6.1 will become next LTS.
And I am not aware about any issue from testing team related to 6.1 kernel 
version. And we are covering our AMD/Xilinx SOCs based on arm32/arm64 and 
Microblaze CPUs.

It would be good to continue with the same strategy which using the latest 
kernel at that year which is what I am hearing all the time from others that 6.1 
was last kernel at that year and it should be LTS.

I didn't run any stats but normally also more patches are going to this version 
to be the part of LTS.

We will be upgrading to the latest stable version 6.1.5 quite soon but normally 
there are no new issues coming from it.

Thanks,
Michal