[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] brcm47xx: bump kernel to 4.4

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 22 November 2016 at 18:36,  <p.wassi at gmx.at> wrote:
>> On 25 October 2016 at 9:41, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyway I finally debugged this local vs. buildbot difference to the
>> CONFIG_KERNEL_KALLSYMS. Images from buildbot have this symbol enabled
>> which slightly increases kernel size. Enough to stop it from booting
>> on WRT300N v1.
>
> Yesterday, I had the serial console attached to a WRT54GL for other things I had
> to do and tried buildbot's brcm47xx image for this device. It did not boot.
> So I'm again using my local builds without CONFIG_KERNEL_KALLSYMS
>
> Since some kind of release seems to be coming, I think we can't leave it in
> this state. Either disable the image generation for that device, or get the image
> built without KALLSYMS. What do you think about this?

I think building OpenWrt releases without KALLSYMS was always the case
for brcm47xx / legacy or even all the targets. I expect to do the same
for LEDE.

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Rafał