OpenWrt 25.12 release plan

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 2/9/26 10:47, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Hauke,
> 
> thanks for working on these releases!!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> 
>> @Linus: Please have a look at the fixes you pushed to the main branch in
>> the last few weeks and check which should get backported to 25.12.
> 
> As an effect of finally dusting off a Raidsonic IB-4220-B that was sent
> to me by a supporter in 2019 I realized what the problem was and fixed
> the root cause.
> 
> What happened was that the kernel partition of 3072K used to fit
> the whole kernel and initramfs and everybody was happy. Then with
> new kernel releases it grew and doesn't fit anymore and everything
> crash.
> 
> It's a shame because the device has lots of flash (128MB) and
> can work just fine as long as it's utilized right.
> 
> The following overrides the built-in partitioning scheme on that and
> two related machines and make them work with latest OpenWrt:
> 
> commit 92682593d53104f43f8b06c52faa5d05d471dea8
> gemini: Add DTS fix from upstream kernel
> 
> commit 8dec72061f523227e2535863f25f8ff239c441b3
> gemini: Fix up the rootfs device for SQ201
> 
> commit 0b0cd4efe25d9ee73896c8fa3079074dbae2637d
> gemini: support upgrade on reference designs
> 
> commit 691aa70e1693542eee795df4bed2b46f6af26e63
> gemini: create a copy-kernel for 3072k kernels
> 
> commit b8dc7ac9c68d7e3e3a838c2ca32545c57642653b
> gemini: select CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP
> 
> commit 04bc0b6d3f440cc139d6e320cba165b37cda9c9b
> gemini: Fix up sysupgrade platform.sh script
> 
> commit db7a2fb217d7e5480e3f5c57c061a675cf9dd83a
> gemini: pad storlink reference firmware to 128kb
> 
> commit 1977301b5f8f76b4d04b5950b09b2fd7cf607bc4
> gemini: use tar stream to write firmware
> 
> commit 387752dc76ba2de2510147427ff1361dfd90c556
> gemini: override IB-4220-B partitions for firmware
> 
> commit 81215f55e274b9127f3491590bd237d1f836a014
> gemini: sq201: override SQ201 partitions for firmware
> 
> commit c579e1d04c35dc767964901b384d7bf42f672668
> gemini: sl93512r: override SL93512R partitions for firmware
> 
> 
> The following are more simple fixes:
> 
> commit f52f1a85d187143f8f4f32441baa626b2a00762d
> gemini: set disk activity on orange LED
> 
> commit 37b13b6ea65f64154d4e97d3cb677f31aebf5ec3
> gemini: select the right GPIO input package
> 
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Hi Linus,

Thanks for the list, you can just cherry pick them yourself and push 
them to the branch. If you want some review and automated tests you can 
also create a PR on github with them the CI will them build test the code.

Hauke