[LEDE-DEV] kernel 4.9 migration for next release

[Lucian Cristian]

On 02.10.2017 22:18, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> For the next major LEDE release after 17.01 all targets should be on
> kernel 4.9, otherwise they will most likely not be included in the release.
>
> The following targets are on kernel 4.9 and are fine:
> * apm821xx
> * arc770
> * archs38
> * armvirt
> * ath25
> * bcm53xx
> * brcm2708
> * cns3xxx
> * imx6
> * ipq806x
> * kirkwood
> * lantiq
> * mediatek
> * mpc85xx
> * mvebu
> * mxs
> * octeon
> * pistachio
> * ramips
> * rb532
> * sunxi
> * x86
>
> The following targets are on kernel 4.4 and need a upgrade to kernel 4.9
> to be included:
> * ar71xx
> 	This needs some work as upstream migrated to device tree.
> * at91
> * brcm47xx
> 	4.9 patches available
> 	Some devices have problems with "big" kernel images
> 	@Rafał: did you explain this in some mail in detail were you saw
> 	these problems, I would like to investigate this.
> * brcm63xx
> * gemini
> * ixp4xx
> * layerscape
> 	There is a pull request from NXP with kernel 4.9 on github
> * malta
> * omap
> * orion
> * oxnas
> * uml
> * zynq
>
> The following targets are on kernel 3.18 and also need an upgrade to
> kernel 4.9 to be included, they were not even included in LEDE 17.01:
> * adm5120
> * adm8668
> * ar7
> 	kernel 4.1 patches are there ;-)
> * au1000
> * mcs814x
> * ppc40x
> * ppc44x
> * xburst
>
> This target is on kernel 4.1 (WTF):
> * omap24xx
>
>
> It would be nice if we would get patches for these targets which update
> them to kernel version 4.9.
>
> I used this to find the kernel versions:
> find target/linux/ -name Makefile |xargs fgrep 4.9 |sort
>
> Hauke
>
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Tested omap with beagleboard black on 4.9, they have only one board 
specific patch, for this target, migrating to 4.14 should be easy

Regards