[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] linux-raspberrypi versions

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:03 AM, piotr.lewicki <piotr.lewicki at elfin.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I also think that's a good idea. In my opinion we should at least make
> latest LTS (4.4) the default kernel and try to add latest mainline.
>
> Probably the "proper way" of dealing with the issue is using branches. This
> way (as it is in oe-core): jethro would have kernel 3.18 and 4.1, krogoth
> would have 4.4 and 4.1 and master would only have 4.4 and latest mainline.

4.1 is also LTS, So it should be kept along with 4.4 until next LTS

>
> Don't you think that it would be a good idea to create some "quasi" krogoth
> branch out of what is on master and then cleaning the master (e.g. removing
> kernel 3.18 and 4.1) ?
>
>
> BR,
>
> Piotr
>
>
>
> On 21.07.2016 17:39, Herve Jourdain wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I had the same line of thoughts...
>> I believe 3.18 should be dropped, maybe even 4.1, default to 4.4, and
>> maybe
>> add 4.7 to the mix, since 4.7 seems to be where the bulk of the work is
>> done
>> now.
>>
>> Herve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org
>> [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org]
>> On Behalf Of Paul Barker
>> Sent: jeudi 21 juillet 2016 09:03
>> To: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: [yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] linux-raspberrypi versions
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm planning to look at the linux-raspberypi recipes once I've had time to
>> send V2 of my u-boot patches. I'd like to know people's thoughts on the
>> available kernel versions in the meta-raspberrypi layer:
>>
>> Is anyone still using the linux-raspberrypi 3.18 recipe? The commit
>> referenced in SRCREV is from June 2015. I think it's probably time to
>> retire
>> this unless anyone has a reason to keep it around.
>>
>> Is there any reason to keep linux-raspberrypi 4.1 as the default recipe?
>> The
>> last commit to the 4.1 branch was in April and the default branch on the
>> linux-raspberrypi GitHub repository has been
>> 4.4 since then. I think we should change the default version to 4.4 unless
>> there's a good reason not to.
>>
>> If there's no objections I'll send a couple of patches to drop 3.18 and
>> change the default to 4.4.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul Barker
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