4.8 kernel for Xenial

[J Fernyhough]

On 21/11/16 21:01, JMZ wrote:
> Try the canonical-kernel-team ppa to get 4.8.x and onwards. Never had a
> problem with it even when running xenial.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> 


While it will probably work fine for most people, it's not necessarily a
solution:

> This ppa is used for building pre-release and test kernels.
> 
> It IS NOT RECOMMENDED that you subscribe to this PPA.


However, given that there is a 'linux-lts-yakkety' metapackage in there
the work is definitely underway to bring it to xenial proper.

As for the timeline...


J