[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb: upgrade to latest good version

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain at neuf.fr> wrote:
> Hi Khem,
>
> If I may, I have an interest in keeping 4.7 for a few more months (2 or 3 I
> guess).
> I'm using it for a few things, and I don't currently plan to switch to 4.8,
> but rather to 4.9 when it's more stable (hence the 2 or 3 additional
> months).
> As you already know, 4.9 is supposed to be the next LTS (if Greg
> Kroah-Hartman doesn't change his mind), and I'd like to wait for it while
> keep using the version I already use.
>
> This said, given the recent rebasing on the raspberrypi github, at least for
> version 4.7, it definitely is a maintenance burden.
> If that can help, I'm volunteering to maintain the revision for the 4.7
> raspberrypi linux kernel, for the next 2 to 3 months.
>
> After that, the question that will remain is what revisions do we keep: we
> currently have 4.1, 4.4, 4.7 and 4.8.
> We will soon have 4.9.
> 4.1 and 4.4 are LTS (EOL = 09/2017 & 02/2018), neither 4.7 nor 4.8 will be,
> and 4.9 is supposed to be.
> What do you think we should do, scrap 4.1 and 4.7, leaving 4.4, 4.8 and 4.9?
> Or keep only the LTS ones?

Two LTS and one latest version of given time should be sufficient. I
should have deleted
4.7 when 4.8 came out.

>
> Herve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khem Raj [mailto:raj.khem at gmail.com]
> Sent: jeudi 17 novembre 2016 18:17
> To: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain at neuf.fr>; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb:
> upgrade to latest good version
>
>
>
> On 11/17/16 5:13 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain at neuf.fr>
>> ---
>>  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
>> b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
>> index 0315f8f..4a8fe36 100644
>> --- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
>> +++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
>> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
>>  FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:"
>>
>> -LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.7"
>> +LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.10"
>
> I think, we should abandon all non-lts recipes except one which will be
> latest release ( 4.8 ) as of today.
>
>>
>> -SRCREV = "a45a35c08598b23f9fd82e49c83b46c7d536244f"
>> +SRCREV = "e7fa325a40f260ed9fb86391a0b65150eba8c112"
>>  SRC_URI =
> "git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-4.7.y \
>>             file://0001-fix-dtbo-rules.patch \  "
>>
>
>