[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] kernel version status

[John Crispin]

On 19/02/18 13:54, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> As a user of an ar71xx (WNDR3800) on OpenWrt, I'd like to ask if your 
> desire is that ar71xx never gets bumped up to anything higher than 4.9 
> or it's just not 4.14 because of some specific reasons related to 4.14?
>
> IOW, shall I be looking for a replacement because I'll stay on 4.9 
> forever?
>
> Best regards,
> Maciej
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org 
> <mailto:john at phrozen.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 18/02/18 22:43, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>
>         The next OpenWrt release will use kernel 4.9 and kernel 4.14
>         depending
>         on the target. All targets that are *not* on either kernel 4.9
>         or 4.14
>         will not be included in the next release.
>
>         I did some overview of the kernel version some months ago here:
>         http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2017-October/009446.html
>         <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2017-October/009446.html>
>
>         Here is the current situation as of today:
>
>         The following targets are on kernel 4.14 and are fine:
>         * apm821xx
>         * archs38
>         * armvirt
>         * cns3xxx
>         * malta
>         * mediatek
>         * octeon
>         * octeontx
>         * sunxi
>         * x86
>
>         The following targets are on kernel 4.9 and are fine:
>         * ar71xx
>         * ar7
>         * arc770
>         * at91
>                 There are some patches for kernel 4.14 on the mailing list
>                 waiting for response from author
>         * ath25
>         * bcm53xx
>                 patches for 4.14 are available in master
>         * brcm2708
>         * brcm47xx
>         * brcm63xx
>                 patches for 4.14 are available in master
>         * imx6
>                 There are some patches for kernel 4.14 on the mailing list
>                 which is being worked on
>         * ipq806x
>         * ixp4xx
>         * kirkwood
>         * lantiq
>                 patches for 4.14 are in Mathias Kresin's staging tree.
>         * layerscape
>         * mpc85xx
>         * mvebu
>                 patches for 4.14 are available in master
>                 I would like to get this to kernel 4.14 by default soon.
>         * mxs
>         * omap
>         * orion
>         * pistachio
>         * ramips
>                 patches for 4.14 are available in master
>         * rb532
>         * uml
>
>         The following targets are on kernel 4.4 and will probably not be
>         included in the next release:
>         * gemini
>         * oxnas
>         * zynq
>
>         The following targets are on kernel 3.18 and will probably not be
>         included in the next release:
>         * adm5120
>         * adm8668
>         * au1000
>         * mcs814x
>                 I have patches which port this target to 4.4 in my
>         tree, but
>                 nobody tested them.
>         https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4
>         <https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4>
>         * ppc40x
>         * ppc44x
>         * xburst
>                 I have patches which port this target to 4.4 in my
>         tree, but
>                 nobody tested them
>         https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4
>         <https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4>
>
>         This target is on kernel 4.1 (WTF):
>         * omap24xx
>
>         All the targets which are not on kernel 4.9 or 4.14 will
>         probably not be
>         included in the next release, I also haven't seen any activity
>         for any
>         of them to get support for more recent kernel versions, if you
>         need them
>         please take care now.
>
>         Hauke
>
>
>     Hi Hauke,
>
>     I planned to make that list today, thanks for taking care of it !.
>     I would like to see ar71xx and ramips stay on v4.9, regardless of
>     there being patches for v4.14. I would also like to see ar71xx
>     never being bumped to v4.14, I spent a few days last week
>     revamping my old ath79 port and would like to see a hard cut,
>     moving QCA mips target to OF only post release.
>
>         John
>
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Hi Maciej

please dont top post.

ath79 is the same as ar71xx but uses dts files instead of mach files

     John