[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] ath25: update kernel from 3.18 to 4.4

Mon May 16 01:02:35 PDT 2016

I've diffed the bootlogs of 3.18 and 4.4 for my particular image, included below:

--- /tmp/ath25-3.18-boot.log	2016-05-16 00:50:16.984951380 -0700
+++ /tmp/ath25-4.4-boot.log	2016-05-16 00:50:30.337017589 -0700
@@ -13,23 +13,23 @@
 FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each.
 == Executing boot script in 3.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
 RedBoot> fis load -l vmlinux.bin.l7
-Image loaded from 0x80041000-0x803af7ec
+Image loaded from 0x80041000-0x803cc014
 RedBoot> exec
 Now booting linux kernel:
  Base address 0x80030000 Entry 0x80041000
  Cmdline : 
-Linux version 3.18.29 (openwrt at hawg) (gcc version 5.3.0 (LEDE GCC 5.3.0 r241) ) #1 Mon May 16 05:25:24 UTC 2016
+Linux version 4.4.10 (openwrt at hawg) (gcc version 5.3.0 (LEDE GCC 5.3.0 r241) ) #1 Mon May 16 07:13:54 UTC 2016
 bootconsole [early0] enabled
 CPU0 revision is: 00019064 (MIPS 4KEc)
 Determined physical RAM map:
  memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
 Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
 Zone ranges:
-  Normal   [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
+  Normal   [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000001ffffff]
 Movable zone start for each node
 Early memory node ranges
-  node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
-Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
+  node   0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000001ffffff]
+Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000001ffffff]
 Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 16 bytes.
 Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 8128
@@ -37,18 +37,23 @@
 PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
 Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
 Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
-Memory: 28452K/32768K available (2666K kernel code, 107K rwdata, 596K rodata, 136K init, 193K bss, 4316K reserved)
+Memory: 28324K/32768K available (2749K kernel code, 108K rwdata, 632K rodata, 148K init, 192K bss, 4444K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
+SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
 NR_IRQS:128
+clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 20774570075 ns
+sched_clock: 32 bits at 92MHz, resolution 10ns, wraps every 23342213114ns
 Calibrating delay loop... 183.70 BogoMIPS (lpj=918528)
 pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
 Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
+clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
 NET: Registered protocol family 16
 registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
 ar2315-pci ar2315-pci: register PCI controller
 PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
 pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x80000000-0xbfffffff]
 pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000]
+pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0]
 pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
 pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x80000000-0x83ffffff]
 pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x84000000-0x87ffffff]
@@ -68,12 +73,11 @@
 pci 0000:00:04.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x99860000-0x9987ffff]
 pci 0000:00:05.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x99880000-0x9989ffff]
 pci 0000:00:06.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x998a0000-0x998bffff]
-Switched to clocksource MIPS
+clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
 NET: Registered protocol family 2
 TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
-TCP: reno registered
 UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 NET: Registered protocol family 1
@@ -82,7 +86,6 @@
 futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
 squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
 jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
-msgmni has been set to 55
 io scheduler noop registered
 io scheduler deadline registered (default)
 Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
@@ -97,31 +100,30 @@
 6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device spiflash
 Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spiflash":
 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "RedBoot"
-0x000000030000-0x000000150000 : "vmlinux.bin.l7"
-0x000000150000-0x0000007e0000 : "rootfs"
+0x000000030000-0x000000160000 : "vmlinux.bin.l7"
+0x000000160000-0x0000007e0000 : "rootfs"
 mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
-0x000000520000-0x0000007e0000 : "rootfs_data"
+0x000000530000-0x0000007e0000 : "rootfs_data"
 0x0000007e0000-0x0000007ef000 : "FIS directory"
 0x0000007ef000-0x0000007f0000 : "RedBoot config"
 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "boardconfig"
 eth0: Atheros AR231x: 00:12:cf:83:7b:08, irq 4
 libphy: ar231x_eth_mii: probed
 eth0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:00)
-TCP: cubic registered
 NET: Registered protocol family 10
 NET: Registered protocol family 17
 bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
 VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
-Freeing unused kernel memory: 136K (8038e000 - 803b0000)
+Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K (803ab000 - 803d0000)
 eth0: Configuring MAC for full duplex
 init: Console is alive
 init: - watchdog -
 init: - preinit -
 ey and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
 [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
-jffs2: notice: (216) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
+jffs2: notice: (274) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
 mount_root: switching to jffs2 overlay
 procd: - early -
 procd: - watchdog -


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