[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] brcm47xx: switch to the kernel 4.14

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat May 5 15:06:14 PDT 2018


From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>

The biggest (and the only?) disadventage of this is obviously an
increased image size.

For mips74k the size of vmlinux goes up from 4186684 B to 4701436 B.
Most devices use LZMA compressed kernel so probably more important is
vmlinux.lzma size which goes up from 1342945 B to the 1508498 B.

Still this isn't something that should stop target kernel bump. There
are various adventages of kernel 4.14. If kernel / image size is a
serious concern for anyone, it's perfectly possible to use previous
release which is pretty solid for the brcm47xx.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
Cc: Paul Wassi <p.wassi at gmx.at>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
---
 target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile b/target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile
index f0ac7f94a0..484f314bc1 100644
--- a/target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile
+++ b/target/linux/brcm47xx/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ FEATURES:=squashfs usb
 SUBTARGETS:=generic mips74k legacy
 MAINTAINER:=Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
 
-KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.9
+KERNEL_PATCHVER:=4.14
 
 define Target/Description
 	Build firmware images for Broadcom based BCM47xx/53xx routers with MIPS CPU, *not* ARM.
-- 
2.13.6




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