From 9bde5f7056fc2687c528b5ecc942e346c929b469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aelin Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 01:00:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/generic-kernels: Mention linux-next Part-of: --- docs/packaging/kernel-packages/generic-kernel-packages.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/packaging/kernel-packages/generic-kernel-packages.md b/docs/packaging/kernel-packages/generic-kernel-packages.md index 3f76b9519..6fbc6fae8 100644 --- a/docs/packaging/kernel-packages/generic-kernel-packages.md +++ b/docs/packaging/kernel-packages/generic-kernel-packages.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Generic Kernels postmarketOS includes a couple of generic kernel packages in the `main` device -category: `linux-postmarketos-mainline`, `linux-postmarketos-stable` and -`linux-postmarketos-lts`. +category: `linux-postmarketos-mainline`, `linux-postmarketos-stable`, +`linux-postmarketos-lts` and `linux-next`. These are kernels intended to work on a wide variety of devices and are the postmarketOS equivalents to Alpine kernels such as `linux-stable` or @@ -115,3 +115,7 @@ kernel_mainline() { devicepkg_subpackage_kernel $startdir $pkgname $subpkgname } ``` + +The `linux-next` kernel doesn't have to be part of device packages, and is only +intended to be enabled by device packages that want to enable it, but none of +them have to.