[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Current master broken

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 7 02:54:04 PST 2016


On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 07:25:23 +0000
> Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:17:55 -0500
>> Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue 2016-12-06 @ 11:00:34 PM, Paul Barker wrote:
>> > > Upstream effectively support one version, currently 4.4. When upstream
>> > > made that the default branch, the changes to the 4.1 branch stopped -
>> > > there wasn't really much overlap. Everything post-4.4 is active
>> > > development and gets rebased at will. At some point they'll move to the
>> > > next LTS release (4.9) and 4.4 will be dropped.
>> >
>> > Are you speaking specifically about the kernel for raspberry pi, or in
>> > general?
>>
>> Raspberrypi specifically.
>>
>> > Because the kernel for raspberry pi has several branches that are all
>> > maintained and kept up-to-date. It's actually quite commendable how this
>> > repository is maintained. Branches for 4.4, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9 and others are all
>> > usable (ignoring the constant rebasing thing...)
>>
>> 4.4 is stable and never gets rebased.
>>
FWIW: patch fixing 4.4 just arrived in oe-core

Andreas



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