[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 0/5] mvebu: add kernel 4.14 support

[Rosen Penev]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> On 01/21/2018 06:53 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> This add support for kernel 4.14 to the mvebu target. My main reason to
>> add kernel 4.14 support is to make it easier to also add support for the
>> Marvell Armada 3700LP ARM64 SoCs especially the ESPRESSObin board.
>>
>> I do not have any of the currently supported boards so I can not runtime
>> test this myself, Lucian Cristian already tested an older version of
>> these patches on one of his boards.
>>
>> My current working tree for this target can be found here:
>> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/hauke.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mvebu-4.14
>> This tree also contains the code needed for the ESPRESSObin, but we
>> still have some problems with the image creation, the bootloader boots
>> by default the kernel + dtb from a ext4 file system on a SD card and
>> also uses this partition as root file system.
>> Tomasz Maciej Nowak is working on the image generation for the
>> ESPRESSObin board.
>>
>> I am waiting for positive and negative feedback on these patches, if you
>> run into a problem which you do not have with kernel 4.9 please report
>> this.
>>
>> changes in:
>> v2:
>>  * refresh on current generic kernel 4.14 integration
>>  * create ubifs fs format version 4 also with kernel 4.14, this should
>>    fix sysupgrade (downgrade) from kernel 4.14 to 4.9
>>  * rename the wireless driver path when upgrading
>>
>>
>> Hauke Mehrtens (5):
>>   kernel: ubifs: create use file system format 4 by default
>>   mvebu: move files to files-4.9 and files-4.4 folder
>>   mvebu: copy config and patches from 4.9 to 4.14
>>   mvebu: Make kernel 4.14 patches apply
>>   mvebu: migrate uci config to new PCIe path
>>
>
> I haven't heard of any problems, expected that one patch does not apply
> any more with kernel 4.14.18, which is fixed now.
>
> I will merge this on Sunday if I do not get any negative feedback.
>
> You can find my tree here:
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/hauke.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mvebu-4.14
i just pulled your staging tree and decided to compile firmware for my
Turris Omnia.

CONFIG_TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE makes the kernel fail. It needs to be
defined somewhere.

>
> Hauke
>
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