[OpenWrt-Devel] Kernel version for OpenWrt 20.X

[mail at adrianschmutzler.de]

> > >> On 11/28/19 7:11 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
> > >>> Hi Hauke,
> > >>>
> > >>>> The following are still on kernel 4.9:
> > >>>>  * ar7
> > >>>>  * ixp4xx
> > >>>>  * orion
> > >>>
> > >>> There are patches (actually from you, May 2019) on the list which
> > >>> claim to bump ar7 and orion to 4.14:
> > >>>
> > >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?series=107337
> > >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?series=107339
> > >>>
> > >>> I haven't looked closer, just in case you forgot about them ;-)
> > >>
> > >> Nobody reported that they are working so I never applied them. I do
> > >> not have the hardware, I just made them compile.
> > >
> > > Since there was no response of any kind from a third party, I've
> > > just
> > marked the two patchsets as "Deferred" in the patchwork, so we get a
> > little more overview there. I hope that's okay for you.
> >
> > Yes fine with me, we should probably drop these targets soon.
> >
> > Hauke
> 
> I think it's time to remove the three targets and kernel 4.9 support as well
> after the release has been made. Or does keeping kernel 4.9 in master (even
> without targets) make it easier to support 18.06 branch?
> 

I've prepared a staging branch for that (completely untested at the moment):
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/adrian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/remove49

For orion, I have some grep matches in uboot-kirkwood and kernel/linux/modules/usb.mk I'm not sure about, so I haven't touched those yet.

Best

Adrian
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