[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] brcm47xx: bump kernel to 4.4

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 24 October 2016 at 18:43,  <p.wassi at gmx.at> wrote:
>> I started working on this today, I reproduce see the issue during a
>> lot of tests until it magically disappeared. Then LEDE started booting
>> on my unit with kernel 4.4.
>
> Oh - that rings a bell.
> May I point you to a discussion we had earlier this year?
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-May/000980.html
>
> I had this issue on all my WRT54GLs:
> trunk images stopped booting at "Starting program at 0x80001000".
> However, if I compiled the images myself (with the exact same configuration
> as the buildbot), the images would boot fine.
> I later checked again: buildbot's images did not boot.
> (It was kernel 4.1 back then, but it's the exact same behaviour as you describe
> in the commit message)
> Additionally builtbot's images worked out-of-the-box on an ASUS WL500gP V2.

It seems I'm experiencing the same crazy problem. Local builds work
for me (as explained in commit message), but image from buildbot
(https://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/targets/brcm47xx/legacy/)
doesn't boot. This is some totally crazy thing :|

-- 
Rafał