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

Andrei Gherzan andrei at gherzan.ro
Sun Jul 31 11:54:59 PDT 2016


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:07:07AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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

I'm 100% on removing < 4 and keep 4.4 default along with LTS 4.1 and the
current tip.

>
> >
> > 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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