Fate of 4.14 targets / samsung odroid HC1 support

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> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
> On Behalf Of Andre Valentin
> Sent: Dienstag, 4. August 2020 17:48
> To: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> Subject: Re: Fate of 4.14 targets / samsung odroid HC1 support
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've enabled support for the odoid HC1 in the samsung target a month ago, it
> only needs generic 5.4 kernel and is a subtarget.
> https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc1-home-cloud-one/
> Only open thing is the boodloader on the sdcard, which is a binary for
> hardkernel.

Well, at the moment the main issue is 5.4. If nobody sends 5.4 support for the target, it will be dropped.

Everything else can only happen after that.

Best

Adrian

> 
> If there is interest I could send a patch.
> 
> Otherwise I would keep it private.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> André
> 
> 
> 
> Am 04.08.20 um 16:43 schrieb mail at adrianschmutzler.de:
> > Hi together,
> >
> > with bcm47xx/bcm53xx bumped to 5.4 now (thanks!), we are left we the
> following targets that (most likely) won't be moved to 5.4 anymore:
> >
> > 4.19: cns3xxx
> > 4.14: ar71xx, at91, ath25, pistachio, rb532, samsung, uml
> >
> > Now, where 20.xx comes closer, I wonder whether we should remove the
> 4.14 targets _before_ branching.
> > Those are already two LTS kernel versions behind, the probability that
> somebody will bump them to an even newer kernel after 20.xx is quite small.
> > Despite, if we drop them before the branch, we only have to drop them
> > once. :-) After having reminded about the situation of the named targets
> several times, I don't think anything will change if we wait any longer with
> this step.
> >
> > The only remaining targets with 4.14 support would be ramips and arc770
> then.
> >
> > Thoughts/opinions?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
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