Someone working on kernel 5.9?

Koen Vandeputte koen.vandeputte at citymesh.com
Thu Oct 29 08:11:57 EDT 2020


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.

Regards,

Koen




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