[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: Add support for kernel 5.4

Koen Vandeputte koen.vandeputte at ncentric.com
Fri Feb 28 12:23:49 EST 2020


On 28.02.20 18:22, Ansuel Smith wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     After a lot of hard work from many people involved, I'm very
>     pleased to
>     announce
>     initial support for kernel 5.4 has been pushed to master with
>     already a
>     nice amount
>     of available targets.
>
>     If you are interested, feel free to test, send fixes or send
>     patches for
>     supporting 5.4 on other targets besides the ones mentioned below.
>
>     All supported targets have been provided with kernel 5.4 as the
>     "Testing
>     kernel".
>     This means you can enable 5.4 by selecting "Global --> use the
>     testing
>     kernel version" within menuconfig.
>
>
>     *Big fat warning*
>
>     While a ton of effort has been conducted, trying to prevent mayhem
>     and
>     fixing as many bugs as possible,
>     support for 5.4 is still considered to be experimental at this point
>     until extended testing has been conducted.
>
>     If you would like to try it, please make sure you are able to debrick
>     your device if required.
>     If you still try it without any way of debricking it, you are
>     doing so
>     *at your own risk*
>
>
>     Following targets are currently available and have been runtime
>     tested:
>
>     - apm821xx
>     - ath79
>     - bcm53xx
>     - imx6
>     - ipq40xx
>     - mediatek
>     - mpc85xx
>     - x86_64
>
>     Completely untested but provided as a baseline:
>
>     - ipq807x
>
>
>     Following targets are near completion and should be added
>     hopefully next
>     week:
>
>     - cns3xxx
>     - octeontx
>
>
>     Kind Regards,
>
>     Koen
>
>
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>
> Ipq806x is pretty much done and I think can be pushed as a testing 
> kernel, should I create a PR on GitHub?


Yes please.


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