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

[Rosen Penev]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Sorry it makes the compile fail. I have not tested it running yet.
>
>>
>> Hauke
>>
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