
<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On December 20, 2014 at 1:04:05 PM, Rafał Miłecki (<a href="mailto:zajec5@gmail.com">zajec5@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div></div><div>Don't top post.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>On 20 December 2014 at 18:58, Marc Nicholas <marc@wimoto.com> wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Well, there-in lies the problem: AR71xx doesn’t have any patches for >3.14<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> kernel right now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I’m trying to build it, though.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>You can be the one to add them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>cp -R patches-3.14 patches-3.18<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>make target/linux/{clean,prepare} V=s QUILT=1<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/patches#adding_or_editing_kernel_patches<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Okay, spent a couple of hours working through patching a 3.18 kernel. Went reasonably well ;)</p><p>Aside from quite a few particular router support patches (which I’m not overly concerned about), there were some failures in Flash, PHY, SPI and USB support for the AR71xx platform.</p><p>Before I dig in and analyse some more, any pointers on why the following might fail, or how to triage? Is there a possibility some now exist in the mainline kernel?</p><p>Thx.</p><p><br></p><p>-m</p><p><br></p><p>406-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-specify-max-read-size.patch</p><p>407-mtd-m25p80-allow-to-pass-probe-types-via-platform-data.patch</p><p>425-net-phy-at803x-allow-to-configure-via-pdata.patch</p><p>430-drivers-link-spi-before-mtd.patch</p><p>432-spi-rb4xx-spi-driver.patch</p><p>433-spi-rb4xx-cpld-driver.patch</p><p>462-mtd-m25p80-set-spi-transfer-type.patch</p><p>464-spi-ath79-fix-fast-flash-read.patch</p><p>490-usb-ehci-add-quirks-for-qca-socs.patch</p><p>605-MIPS-ath79-db120-fixes.patch</p><p>610-MIPS-ath79-openwrt-machines.patch</p><p>616-MIPS-ath79-ubnt-xw.patch</p><p>902-unaligned_access_hacks.patch</p><div><br></div></body></html>