[PATCH 0/2] ath25: add 5.4 kernel support (not for merge)

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Fri Sep 4 00:14:46 EDT 2020


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> writes:

Daniel> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:20:49AM +0300, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> This series introduces support for 5.4 kernel. I know that this
>> target was dropped earlier this week. And I think that this was a
>> good decision. So, this series is not for merging, but for reference
>> if someone still uses one of these boards and want to create a custom
>> build with a modern kernel version.

Daniel> I'd say as you have apprently really managed to get it booting
Daniel> it is worth reverting the removal and including it.  Sure, a bit
Daniel> late, but there is hardware out there which would benefit from
Daniel> recent OpenWrt (old ubnt gear, fonera, ... some of them 8/32).
Daniel> But in terms of resources, ath25 is more advanced than good-old
Daniel> bcm47xx and also played an important role in OpenWrt history.

Daniel> Maybe I'm just nostalgic...

+1


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