[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][morty][PATCH 4/6] linux-raspberrypi: Drop v4.8

[Paul Barker]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:21:12 -0800
Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > wrote:  
> >> 4.8 will build until rpi kernel folks rebase the branch :( moving
> >> forward, we should only keep stable branches which they dont rebase
> >> hopefully and 1 more recipe called linux-raspberrypi_dev.bb to
> >> track the latest upstream release, so it will be clear that this
> >> is a dev kernel.  
> >
> > I like this idea. So you mean having two kernel recipes from now on:
> > 1. one current default of ilnux-raspberrypi
> > 2. and the latest one as linux-raspberrypi-dev
> > ?  
> 
> yes. We can have multiple stable kernel recipes if needed but I would
> like to avoid that too if possible.

This sounds like a great idea.

I'd have an overlap period of a month or so when moving to a new stable
release to give people time to move over. But after that I'd agree we
should just keep a single stable kernel recipe in meta-raspberrypi,
unless there's someone in the community heavily invested in the old
version and willing to maintain it and update it. What we don't want is
releases like 4.1 hanging around long after they've been broken by
changes elsewhere.