I have a RPI4 I use as media center (no D.E with Kodi).
Since I installed Manjaro on it 18 months ago, i use the default kernel (5.15.92-1-MANJARO-ARM-RPI today).
I am fine with it for my use, i do not want to upgrade it to 6.0, but my question is related to mainline kernel.
What are the differences between my kernel (which is non-mainline) and a mainline one ?
Thus, how do i know if such mainline kernel would be good for my need (mainly as mediacenter) ?
Is it related to kms things ?
Thanks for any input, and thanks to the team @Manjaro-Arm for your work
For the Raspberry Pi, we have 3 kernels that should work just fine out of the box.
These are linux-rpi4, linux-rpi4-mainline and linux-rpi4-rc.
The main difference between all these 3 kernels is the branch they are based on.
linux-rpi4: Is based on the current default branch that the Raspberry Pi foundation has in their kernel tree. linux-rpi4-mainline: Is based on the branch from the RPi foundation that has the same series as the current released mainline kernel, which they call stable upstream, so currently 6.1. linux-rpi4-rc: Is based on the branch from the RPi foundation that has the same series as the current “mainline”, as they call their release candidate branch, from upstream kernel.org, so currently 6.2-rc8.
They in essence use the same config when building.
Thanks i got it now.
I was thinking there was a custom manjaro rpi kernel when i do a sudo /proc/version, i got Linux version 5.15.92-1-MANJARO-ARM-RPI
If i understand well linux-rpi4 is the LTS version
I was confused i think with the word mainline.
Mainline, here, does not mean a kernel build with upstream source, It means it builds on the same series (branch ?) as upstream but from the RPI Foundation source?
