[OpenWrt-Devel] kernel version status

[Maciej Soltysiak]

Hi John,

As a user of an ar71xx (WNDR3800) on OpenWrt, I'd like to ask if your
desire is that ar71xx never gets bumped up to anything higher than 4.9 or
it's just not 4.14 because of some specific reasons related to 4.14?

IOW, shall I be looking for a replacement because I'll stay on 4.9 forever?

Best regards,
Maciej

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 18/02/18 22:43, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>
>> The next OpenWrt release will use kernel 4.9 and kernel 4.14 depending
>> on the target. All targets that are *not* on either kernel 4.9 or 4.14
>> will not be included in the next release.
>>
>> I did some overview of the kernel version some months ago here:
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2017-October/009446.html
>>
>> Here is the current situation as of today:
>>
>> The following targets are on kernel 4.14 and are fine:
>> * apm821xx
>> * archs38
>> * armvirt
>> * cns3xxx
>> * malta
>> * mediatek
>> * octeon
>> * octeontx
>> * sunxi
>> * x86
>>
>> The following targets are on kernel 4.9 and are fine:
>> * ar71xx
>> * ar7
>> * arc770
>> * at91
>>         There are some patches for kernel 4.14 on the mailing list
>>         waiting for response from author
>> * ath25
>> * bcm53xx
>>         patches for 4.14 are available in master
>> * brcm2708
>> * brcm47xx
>> * brcm63xx
>>         patches for 4.14 are available in master
>> * imx6
>>         There are some patches for kernel 4.14 on the mailing list
>>         which is being worked on
>> * ipq806x
>> * ixp4xx
>> * kirkwood
>> * lantiq
>>         patches for 4.14 are in Mathias Kresin's staging tree.
>> * layerscape
>> * mpc85xx
>> * mvebu
>>         patches for 4.14 are available in master
>>         I would like to get this to kernel 4.14 by default soon.
>> * mxs
>> * omap
>> * orion
>> * pistachio
>> * ramips
>>         patches for 4.14 are available in master
>> * rb532
>> * uml
>>
>> The following targets are on kernel 4.4 and will probably not be
>> included in the next release:
>> * gemini
>> * oxnas
>> * zynq
>>
>> The following targets are on kernel 3.18 and will probably not be
>> included in the next release:
>> * adm5120
>> * adm8668
>> * au1000
>> * mcs814x
>>         I have patches which port this target to 4.4 in my tree, but
>>         nobody tested them.
>>         https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=sho
>> rtlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4
>> * ppc40x
>> * ppc44x
>> * xburst
>>         I have patches which port this target to 4.4 in my tree, but
>>         nobody tested them
>>         https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/hauke/staging.git;a=sho
>> rtlog;h=refs/heads/kernel-4.4
>>
>> This target is on kernel 4.1 (WTF):
>> * omap24xx
>>
>> All the targets which are not on kernel 4.9 or 4.14 will probably not be
>> included in the next release, I also haven't seen any activity for any
>> of them to get support for more recent kernel versions, if you need them
>> please take care now.
>>
>> Hauke
>>
>
> Hi Hauke,
>
> I planned to make that list today, thanks for taking care of it !. I would
> like to see ar71xx and ramips stay on v4.9, regardless of there being
> patches for v4.14. I would also like to see ar71xx never being bumped to
> v4.14, I spent a few days last week revamping my old ath79 port and would
> like to see a hard cut, moving QCA mips target to OF only post release.
>
>     John
>
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