[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 0/2] Drop kernel versions 4.7 and 4.8

[Paul Barker]

On 16 January 2017 14:51:55 GMT+00:00, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>On 2017-01-16 15:48, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2017-01-16 08:26, Paul Barker wrote:
>>> As discussed recently on the list, we can just keep LTS versions now
>>> that v4.9 is available.
>>>
>>> I'm sending these so anyone who still needs v4.7 or v4.8 can shout
>>> 'stop!' before we remove them.
>>>
>>> Paul Barker (2):
>>>   linux-raspberrypi: Drop v4.7
>>>   linux-raspberrypi: Drop v4.8
>>>
>>>  .../0001-fix-dtbo-rules.patch                      | 44
>----------------------
>>>  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb      |  9 -----
>>>  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.8.bb      |  8 ----
>>>  3 files changed, 61 deletions(-)
>>>  delete mode 100644
>recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi-4.7/0001-fix-dtbo-rules.patch
>>>  delete mode 100644 recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
>>>  delete mode 100644 recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.8.bb
>>>
>>
>> +1 at least for 4.7 given that with today's repo I get this:
>>
>> ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.7.7+gitAUTOINC+c2cbd9c611-r0
>do_kernel_version_sanity_check: Package Version
>> (4.7.7+gitAUTOINC+c2cbd9c611) does not match of kernel being built
>(4.7.10). Please update the PV variable to match the
>> kernel source.
>> ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.7.7+gitAUTOINC+c2cbd9c611-r0
>do_kernel_version_sanity_check: Function failed:
>> do_kernel_version_sanity_check (log file is located at
>>
>/build/rpi3_2016-09-13/tmp/work/raspberrypi3-amltd-linux-gnueabi/linux-raspberrypi/1_4.7.7+gitAUTOINC+c2cbd9c611-r0/temp/log.do_kernel_version_sanity_check.27925)
>>
>> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
>>
>/build/rpi3_2016-09-13/tmp/work/raspberrypi3-amltd-linux-gnueabi/linux-raspberrypi/1_4.7.7+gitAUTOINC+c2cbd9c611-r0/temp/log.do_kernel_version_sanity_check.27925
>>
>> ERROR: Task
>>
>(/local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb:do_kernel_version_sanity_check)
>> failed with exit code '1'
>>
>
>
>However, there is this error when I tried to switch to 4.9:
>ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.9.2+gitAUTOINC+4052b0da7d-r0 do_fetch:
>Fetcher failure: Unable to find revision 
>4052b0da7dbab0df22ca8733cf50b3e573e221e0 in branch rpi-4.9.y even from
>upstream
>ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.9.2+gitAUTOINC+4052b0da7d-r0 do_fetch:
>Fetcher failure for URL: 
>'git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-4.9.y'.
>Unable to fetch URL from any source.
>ERROR: linux-raspberrypi-1_4.9.2+gitAUTOINC+4052b0da7d-r0 do_fetch:
>Function failed: base_do_fetch
>ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: 
>/build/rpi3_2016-09-13/tmp/work/raspberrypi3-amltd-linux-gnueabi/linux-raspberrypi/1_4.9.2+gitAUTOINC+4052b0da7d-r0/temp/log.do_fetch.13098
>ERROR: Task
>(/local/poky-cutting-edge/meta-raspberrypi/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.9.bb:do_fetch)
>failed 
>with exit code '1'
>
>Using meta-raspberrypi:e1f69daa805cb02ddd123ae2d4d48035cb5b41d0

I think any upstream branch after 4.4.y is still at risk of being rebased at the minute. I think the best solution is to still drop 4.7.y and 4.8.y, but try to get an update in for 4.9.y first.


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