I have a question regarding Livepatch support for non-generic kernel variants, which in my case is an AWS image, and why this particular 6.14 current kernel is not covered.
After reading the Why isn’t Livepatch working on my machine? | Ubuntu documentation page, I coudn’t determine the criteria for which a kernel will be left out of support in this particular case.
I got the latest Minimal Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS x86 image:
aws ssm get-parameters --names /aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/pro-minimal/noble/stable/current/amd64/hvm/ebs-gp3/ami-id
Got this response, which is image ami-083b961022b7d386c.
{
"Parameters": [
{
"Name": "/aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/pro-minimal/noble/stable/current/amd64/hvm/ebs-gp3/ami-id",
"Type": "String",
"Value": "ami-083b961022b7d386c",
"Version": 2,
"LastModifiedDate": "2025-12-10T19:02:53.302000-03:00",
"ARN": "arn:aws:ssm:us-east-2::parameter/aws/service/canonical/ubuntu/pro-minimal/noble/stable/current/amd64/hvm/ebs-gp3/ami-id",
"DataType": "aws:ec2:image"
}
],
"InvalidParameters": []
}
Checking the status, support is not active:
On the kernel coverage page I was able to confirm that, as of this writting, the 6.14 is supported for the generic variant only, so the warning message looks accurate.
On the kernel lifecycle page, 6.14 was released in August 2025 but doesn’t have Livepatch support, while 6.11 is not listed in the lifecycle but is listed in the Livepatch support.
