[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFT PATCH] arc770: bump kernel to 5.4

[Evgeniy Didin]

Hi Hauke, Adrian,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> 
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2020 7:11 PM
> To: mail at adrianschmutzler.de; Evgeniy Didin <didin at synopsys.com>; Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFT PATCH] arc770: bump kernel to 5.4

> On 7/22/20 6:36 PM, mail at adrianschmutzler.de wrote:
>> Hi Hauke,
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Hauke Mehrtens
>>> Sent: Montag, 25. Mai 2020 15:56
>>> To: Evgeniy Didin <evgeniy.didin at synopsys.com>; Alexey Brodkin 
>>> <alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com>
>>> Cc: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk at adrianschmutzler.de>; openwrt- 
>>> devel at lists.openwrt.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFT PATCH] arc770: bump kernel to 5.4
>>>
>>> On 4/13/20 12:33 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
>>>> Update config with make kernel_oldconfig and copy patch.
>>>>
>>>> Directly switch to kernel 5.4.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk at adrianschmutzler.de>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> I just stupidly copied/refreshed the patch and the config.
>>>>
>>>> Build-tested, run-test required as I have no hardware.
>>>
>>> Hi Evgeniy and Alexey,
>>>
>>> Could you please test, if this patch works?
>>>
>>> We would like to get all targets to kernel 5.4 for the next release 
>>> and this is one of the targets still at an older kernel. Adrian and I 
>>> do not have any hardware to test this.
>> 
>> just looked at this one again. This target appears to be upstream with almost no local adjustments.
>> 
>> I wonder whether I should just push the kernel bump to master if it builds fine, without a device test. (would do a new refresh and build-test beforehand, of course). Nobody seems to care anyway.
>> 
>> Do you have an opinion here?
>
> I am fine with this.
>
> I think we do not have many users on this target anyway.
> 
> @Evgeniy and @Alexey: Could you please test if this update to kernel 5.4 for the arc770 works basically.

Thank you a lot for updating kernel to 5.4 for arc770! Unfortunately we do not have access to boards with arc770,
so we are not able to test the image right now. By the way we ran Linux kernel v5.4(built by buildroot)
 on arc770 board and it worked well. I guess we can apply this patch and if any issue appears we will fix it.

Thanks and best regards,
Evgeniy Didin

> If someone else has this hardware and can try this out, some feedback would be nice.
>
> Hauke