Someone working on kernel 5.9?

[Koen Vandeputte]

On 29.10.20 13:20, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2020-10-29 13:11, Koen Vandeputte 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.
>>
>> Just swapped to 5.10-rc1 as it will be the next LTS.
> I have 5.9 working on the mediatek target in my staging tree:
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/nbd.git;a=summary
>
> - Felix

Even better!

I'll use it as a baseline towards 5.10.

Thanks Felix

Koen