[PATCH] ramips: switch to kernel 5.10

[Ilya Lipnitskiy]

Hi Adrian,

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:34 PM Stijn Segers <foss at volatilesystems.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ilya,
>
> Op maandag 27 september 2021 om 19u11 schreef Ilya Lipnitskiy
> <ilya.lipnitskiy at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Stijn,
> >
> >>  >>  >all mt7620 JBOOT devices will be broken.
> > ...
> >>  $ grep \ KERNEL_SIZE image/mt7620.mk|wc -l
> >>  1
> > That one is under "define Device/amit_jboot", searching for that
> > yields:
> > $ git grep "\$(Device/amit_jboot)" | wc -l
> > 8
> >
> > So all JBOOT devices look covered.
> >
> > Which mt76x8 device(s) is missing a KERNEL_SIZE or fails to boot with
> > 5.10?
>
> The single mt76x8 device I have works, my reasoning was that maybe
> those needed further checks because most (all?) of them are small flash
> devices. That worry was triggered by the odd report of people bricking
> their device by flashing images with too big a kernel. That being said,
> that even seems to happen to beefy modern hardware like the mvebu
> platform, so... I may have been overly cautious (and worried).
>
> By now it's clear I am not wholly familiar with the finer points, so
> I'm happy with the answers I got (and what I learned) and I'll leave it
> at that.
I think this patch can now be merged in. We can fix broken or devices
with small flash incrementally, right?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Stijn
>
> >
> > Ilya
> >
Thanks!
Ilya