[om-qa] Migration oma 2014.2 -> OMA Lx3

Ben Bullard benbullard79 at cox.net
Sat Feb 27 15:38:39 EST 2016


I don't know position of developers but I think it would be a nightmare 
if not impossible to upgrade 2014 to OM Lx 3.

Ben Bullard
ben79
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On 02/27/2016 03:01 AM, luca pedrielli wrote:
> Il 27/02/2016 09:02, Efrem Mc ha scritto:
>> I think the kernel is so close and the drivers present should be 
>> possible.  I  just installed 2014.2 and with all the updates the 
>> kernel level is 4.1.15 (from 3.18.10).  The beta I have for OM Lx3 
>> was the same if not 4.1.15-1. X server is now at 1.18.1 and 2014.2 
>> now is at 1.17.x?
>> It started at 1.15.1 or 1.15.2?
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>> I believe the upgrade might be similar to what is documented in the 
>> release notes in 2014.2.  I had to find new methods to get drivers 
>> and firmware to work in OM Lx3.  I have a NIC card that uses the 
>> Intel i219-V and that was not part of  2014.2 but was in the beta 
>> build for OM Lx3.  So that was fun....  getting this to work in 
>> 2014.2.  I have a USB to ethernet cable and I used that right out of 
>> the box, AX88179.  It allowed me to get drivers for the Inrel NIC and 
>> others.  There are some missing drivers for my hardware which I have 
>> not explored yet.
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>> I am waiting for the next OM Lx3 release once all the work is done on 
>> ABF.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Efrem McCrimon
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> Maybe switching kde4 -> Plasma5 could be problematic ...
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> Best, Luca.
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>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:19 AM, luca pedrielli 
>> <luca.pedrielli at gmail.com <mailto:luca.pedrielli at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     it will be possible?
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>>     the passage from 2014.2 to Lx3 will be automatically?
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>>     is it time to starting to think of?
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>>     -- 
>>     Saluti, Luca Pedrielli
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