[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt 20.X release plans

[Andreas Ziegler]

Hi,

although i'm more a user than a developer, i would also prefer a sooner
release based on 4.19 over a later release based on 5.4.
Maybe it's the same problem, too atheros-centric ;-)

Regards

Andreas

Michal Cieslakiewicz wrote on 16.01.20 19:43:
> Hi!
> 
> Speaking as a small part-time contributor of some Netgear WN(D)R routers
> code, please reconsider if jumping over 4.19 straight to 5.4 is not a
> too big leap. I'm sure kernel devs here knows better than me how many
> OpenWrt drivers, quirks and enhancements can be ported without too much
> effort from 4.14 to 5.4 that will really benefit from newer 5.x code,
> but here are my 5 cents.
> 
> I was able to port ar934x-nand code from ar71xx 4.4 kernels to ath79 &
> device-tree 4.19 without going too deep into low-level NAND operations
> thanks to only minor changes in kernel code. 5.4 apparently deprecates
> some functions in that area providing 'legacy' knobs for
> who-knows-how-long. If this particular flash driver won't work with 5.4
> at the time of 20.x, routers using it (like WNDR4300 and
> other AR9344-based) effectively will not have any stable OpenWrt
> release supporting it even though they were in master since the end of
> 2019.
> 
> IMHO OpenWrt should have an one final, rock-stable release based on
> latest 4.x LTS kernel (4.19 that is) with ath79 replacing ar71xx
> whenever possible.
> 
> Apologies for being so Atheros-centric :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Michal
> 
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