Release goals for 22.XX

[Robert Marko]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 00:08, Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> based on my overview[1] things are moving forward and being tested,
> great! What about the targets that did not see any 5.10 ambitions yet?
> Specifically:
>
> - arc770
> - archs38
> - ath25
> - bcm47xx
> - bcm4908
> - ipq807x

I can say that Ansuel Smith and I have been working on the IPQ807x support.
It's still rough when it comes to networking but I have been trying to
upstream other stuff slowly.
We were planning to make a PR adding support for most stuff soon and
it would be 5.10 only or
even better 5.15 if that lands into OpenWrt soon.

Regards,
Robert

> - layerscape
> - pistachio
> - uml
>
> Is anyone aware of people working on those targets? Please let me know.
>
> Best,
> Paul
>
> [1]: https://github.com/aparcar/openwrt/issues/15
>
> On 9/29/21 10:28, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The OpenWrt 21.02 release is done and we should plan the next release.
> > We already talked about this in the last meeting, see
> > https://openwrt.org/meetings/20210920
> >
> > To monitor the current state I created this wiki page based on the
> > wiki page from the previous release:
> > https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/releases/goals/22.xx
> >
> > I would like to get an overview about the "big" changes, if an
> > additional board is added or something is improved we do not need to
> > plan it.
> >
> > I would like to get the following:
> >
> > kernel 5.10:
> > We should get all targets to kernel 5.10. All targets which are not on
> > kernel 5.10 when we branch off should get removed.
> >
> > Kernel version for all targets:
> > Kernel 5.10 (only):
> >  bmips
> > Kernel 5.10 (5.4 still present):
> >  bcm27xx bcm53xx gemini ipq806x mediatek mvebu x86
> > Testing 5.10:
> >  apm821xx armvirt ath79 bcm63xx imx6 ipq40xx kirkwood lantiq malta
> >  mpc85xx mxs octeon octeontx oxnas ramips realtek rockchip sunxi tegra
> > Kernel 5.4 only:
> >  arc770 archs38 at91 ath25 bcm47xx bcm4908 ipq807x layerscape omap
> > pistachio uml zynq
> >
> > toolchain:
> > We already updated the toolchain in master to GCC 11.2, binutils 2.37
> > and musl 1.2.2. This looks good to me. Minor version updates of musl
> > libc later should be ok. gdb and glibc could also be update later if
> > someone wants to do it.
> >
> > mac80211:
> > I would like to update the mac80211 version we use to match the code
> > from kernel 5.15 or whatever will be the next LTS kernel. I haven't
> > started yet.
> >
> > DSA:
> > We will migrate some more boards to DSA, the lantiq/xrx200 target is
> > using DSA in master now. It looks like some boards with qca8k would
> > switch. These changes should be local to one target or even board
> > anyway. The infrastructure is already provided. This can continue
> > without much coordination and we can see what is finished when we branch.
> >
> > firewall4:
> > OpenWrt master contains firewall4 optionally which uses nftables
> > instead of iptables. It uses the same configuration as firewall3, the
> > old configuration should still work. Custom iptables extensions should
> > also still work when we use iptables-nft which supports the iptables
> > user interface and generates nftables rules, even Debian stable uses
> > iptables-nft by default. Flow offloading (software and hardware) is
> > supported by upstream kernel when nftables is used, we are currently
> > using a patch to make it "work" with iptables too.
> >
> > We have to activate it by default and deactivate firewall3.
> > We probably need some minor modifications to LuCi to show the current
> > nftables firewall status. This is not device depended like DSA, we can
> > easily test this on one device and it should work the same way on all
> > others.
> >
> > LuCi:
> > What is still needed in LuCi?
> >
> >
> > Is there anything else which is blocking, should be added or needs a
> > discussion?
> >
> > Hauke
> >
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