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

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 25 October 2016 at 08:13,  <p.wassi at gmx.at> wrote:
>> It seems I'm experiencing the same crazy problem. Local builds work
>> for me (as explained in commit message), but image from buildbot
>> doesn't boot. This is some totally crazy thing :|
>
> I opt for staying at 4.4 and not reverting, since the issue already occured
> on kernel 4.1 for the WRT54GL (and probably other devices as well?).
> So it's _not_ a 4.1 -> 4.4 issue! The last kernel, that booted fine
> on my devices (with buildbot images) was OpenWRT 15.05.1 - 3.18.23
> As you've experienced yourself: local images also work fine. With 4.1 and 4.4.

I agree, it doesn't make much sense to revert.

Can you test if (uns)setting CONFIG_KERNEL_KALLSYMS makes a difference
for your local builds? Please remember to compile without -j N as it
isn't reliable, see:
[LEDE-DEV] make -j 4: race between Image/Prepare and device images?
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-October/003632.html

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Rafał