[OpenWrt-Devel] cns3xxx and kernel 5.4

[Adrian Schmutzler]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
> On Behalf Of Koen Vandeputte
> Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2020 09:34
> To: OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
> Subject: [OpenWrt-Devel] cns3xxx and kernel 5.4
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've tried to bump this target to kernel 5.4 but failed to do so twice.
> 
> This target is not DT aware at all and the amount of efforts required to do so
> are tremendous, which I cannot justify internally here.

after I will have phased out kernel 4.14 this week, the cns3xxx target will be the last one remaining that does not support kernel 5.4.

Therefore, considering the list of reasons given by Koen below, I am planning to remove it as well rather quickly (let's say in two weeks).

Again, if somebody is interested in picking this up, please just tell me. You don't have to finish it in two weeks, it's enough to just state that you have (substantial) plans to go on with it.

(For kernel 4.19 in general, I think it might be handy to keep it around until 20.xx.0-rc1 or rc2, so we can do at least some regression testing if required.)

Best

Adrian

> 
> 
> Giving the facts that:
> 
> - The huge amount of effort required
> 
> - The SoC itself reached EoL at Cavium for some time now.
> 
> - Upstream removed some important parts as it's also slowly getting EoL
> over there
> 
> - Internally in the company here, the product that used this will fade
> out shortly
> 
> - The amount of download for this binary suggest that the target is not
> that popular
> 
> 
> I have decided to not invest more time in this one myself.
> 
> I would like to propose to either remove it for the next release, or
> make it source-only for some time excluded from the builds
> 
> should someone else would like to invest more time in it.
> 
> 
> Either way, this target is the last one without 5.4 support and it
> should not delay the process any further.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
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