[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: Add support for kernel 5.4

Ansuel Smith ansuelsmth at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 12:22:16 EST 2020


> Hi All,
>
> After a lot of hard work from many people involved, I'm very pleased to
> announce
> initial support for kernel 5.4 has been pushed to master with already a
> nice amount
> of available targets.
>
> If you are interested, feel free to test, send fixes or send patches for
> supporting 5.4 on other targets besides the ones mentioned below.
>
> All supported targets have been provided with kernel 5.4 as the "Testing
> kernel".
> This means you can enable 5.4 by selecting "Global --> use the testing
> kernel version" within menuconfig.
>
>
> *Big fat warning*
>
> While a ton of effort has been conducted, trying to prevent mayhem and
> fixing as many bugs as possible,
> support for 5.4 is still considered to be experimental at this point
> until extended testing has been conducted.
>
> If you would like to try it, please make sure you are able to debrick
> your device if required.
> If you still try it without any way of debricking it, you are doing so
> *at your own risk*
>
>
> Following targets are currently available and have been runtime tested:
>
> - apm821xx
> - ath79
> - bcm53xx
> - imx6
> - ipq40xx
> - mediatek
> - mpc85xx
> - x86_64
>
> Completely untested but provided as a baseline:
>
> - ipq807x
>
>
> Following targets are near completion and should be added hopefully next
> week:
>
> - cns3xxx
> - octeontx
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
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Ipq806x is pretty much done and I think can be pushed as a testing kernel,
should I create a PR on GitHub?

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