Announcement: Removal of 4.14 kernel from master

[Mauro Mozzarelli]

Why is ar71xx no longer going to be supported?

This includes Netgear WNDR-3700-v4 which is a very popular and reliable 
router in the OpenWRT community.


On 20/08/2020 14:32, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've sent a few reminders about this topic already, and in yesterday's virtual meeting we decided to finally remove the 4.14 kernel support in master _before_ branching a 20.xx branch.
>
> Therefore, I announce that the support for 4.14 as well as the following targets not updated beyond this version will be removed from master in _two weeks_:
>
> ar71xx
> at91
> ath25
> rb532
> samsung
> uml
>
> The corresponding patchset is already available for illustration here (same patches, just two different platforms):
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/adrian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/remove414
> https://github.com/adschm/openwrt/commits/remove414
>
> If somebody wants to upgrade one of the named targets to 5.4 to prevent it from being removed, now is your last chance!
>
> ("Recent" committers to the targets in Cc.)
>
> Best
>
> Adrian
>
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