kernel - What is hardware enablement (HWE)? - Ask Ubuntu
Jan 29, 2013 · I see the linux-hwe-generic package as part of the kernels you can install in Ubuntu. What is hardware enablement (HWE)?
kernel - How to enable HWE on Ubuntu 22.04 - Ask Ubuntu
Nov 23, 2022 · I have an installation of Ubuntu 22.04 (desktop) that I did as soon as 22.04 was available, so it was 22.04.0 at the time. It's fully up to date and currently on 22.04.1 according to …
What is the difference between a OEM kernel and a HWE kernel?
Jan 4, 2022 · An OEM kernel is created by Canonical engineers for specific brand-new hardware that is not yet supported by the (mainline) generic Linux kernel that everybody else uses. OEM is a short …
What determines whether ubuntu upgrades to an hwe kernel
Jan 2, 2025 · Just install the hwe package (s) for your system. i.e. for my Ubuntu 24.04 system, install linux-generic-hwe-24.04 Then the usual update-grub if it wasn't run at the install to default to the new …
How to stop using the HWE kernel and go back to the GA kernel?
Jan 9, 2021 · Remove HWE meta packages by running: sudo apt install linux-generic sudo apt-get remove linux-{image,headers}-generic-hwe-'*' If you also remove the already installed 5.8 kernel …
linux-generic-hwe-24.04 and other are kept back - Ask Ubuntu
Dec 16, 2024 · The following packages have been kept back: linux-generic-hwe-24.04 linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04 When tried to install it manually i got this The …
How do I list what is current kernel version for LTS HWE?
Dec 18, 2020 · Would like to install HWE packages for my 20.04 Ubuntu, not sure if the kernel has been updated or not yet (to which there would be no point in doing for now). How can I list what version of …
How to find out if my ubuntu is using HWE kernel?
Aug 7, 2018 · I have installed HWE kernel in my ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine but uname -a shows 4.13.0-39-generic kernel is being used. How do I find out if the HWE kernel I have installed is being used or …
Ubuntu 20.04 - How can I enable HWE?
Feb 7, 2021 · I've read around that now it should be possible to have kernel 5.8 with HWE 20.04.2. Looks like this was released last week, but my 20.04 system is still on 5.4. I've seen this answer and …
20.04 - Install specific HWE kernel - Ask Ubuntu
Jan 25, 2022 · With Ubuntu 20.04, I know that we can install the latest HWE kernel via sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04. At the moment, this installs linux-hwe-5.13. However, the drivers for the …