Someone working on kernel 5.9?

Robert Marko robimarko at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 08:15:45 EDT 2020


On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 13:14, Koen Vandeputte
<koen.vandeputte at citymesh.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 29.10.20 11:37, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote:
> > Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte at ncentric.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 03.10.20 17:11, Vincent Wiemann wrote:
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> is anybody working on 5.9, already?
> >>> I'd like to do some testing with io_uring on ath79 devices,
> >>> but the features needed require a version > 5.7.
> >>> Please let me know!
> >> Not yet currently as I'm pretty occupied with AI stuff, but I might give
> >> it a try within 1 .. 2 weeks.
> > before you start - in 5.8 kernel build process slightly changed, so openwrt
> > "build module first, kernel last" not working, vmlinux must be build before
> > modules now.
> > mtd subsystem partition code massive changed - mtdsplit drivers need rewrite.
>
> Thanks,
>
> I'll take a look at it.
> I did encounter the mtdsplit stuff you mention.

The rest of us eagerly waiting for a fresh kernel can help.
I am sure that it will go much faster that way.

Regards,
Robert
>
> Just swapped to 5.10-rc1 as it will be the next LTS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
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