Someone working on kernel 5.9?

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2020-10-29 13:11, Koen Vandeputte wrote:
> 
> On 29.10.20 11:37, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote:
>> Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte at ncentric.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03.10.20 17:11, Vincent Wiemann wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> is anybody working on 5.9, already?
>>>> I'd like to do some testing with io_uring on ath79 devices,
>>>> but the features needed require a version > 5.7.
>>>> Please let me know!
>>> Not yet currently as I'm pretty occupied with AI stuff, but I might give
>>> it a try within 1 .. 2 weeks.
>> before you start - in 5.8 kernel build process slightly changed, so openwrt
>> "build module first, kernel last" not working, vmlinux must be build before
>> modules now.
>> mtd subsystem partition code massive changed - mtdsplit drivers need rewrite.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I'll take a look at it.
> I did encounter the mtdsplit stuff you mention.
> 
> Just swapped to 5.10-rc1 as it will be the next LTS.
I have 5.9 working on the mediatek target in my staging tree:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/nbd.git;a=summary

- Felix