On 09/26/2018 09:38 AM, Koen Vandeputte wrote: > > > On 2018-09-23 00:42, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We talked about plans for the next OpenWrt releases in this mail thread: >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2018-July/000849.html >> This mail is more or less a summary of the conclusions, this is still >> open for change especially the dates as this depends on people having >> time to do the work. >> >> The next release, lets call it OpenWrt 19.01, should happen in January >> 2019, we would branch off from master in December 2018. This is the >> current plan, but based on past experience it could also happen later. >> >> OpenWrt 19.01 will ship with kernel 4.14 only, we encourage everyone to >> update the targets to kernel 4.14, support for kernel 4.19 will probably >> be added to OpenWrt master soon, but we will not select it as the >> default kernel for any target till OpenWrt 19.01 is branched off, to get >> more testing on 4.14. The release after 19.01, which should happen in >> late summer 2019, should then use kernel 4.19 only. >> >> For OpenWrt 19.01 GCC will stay on the 7.X branch, binutils and musl >> already got some upgrades after the 18.06 release and could get some >> more updates. >> >> We are currently working on updating the wireless drivers and getting >> them closer to upstream. The wireless driver in OpenWrt 19.01 will be >> taken from kernel 4.19 or later and we want to update them more >> frequently in master. >> >> Otherwise we will have the normal changes in all places like with every >> release. >> >> LEDE 17.01 will get security updates and occasional bug fixes till >> OpenWrt 19.01 was released, but we encourage everyone to upgrade to >> 18.06 to get full security support already now, as especially some of >> the packages are not well maintained any more. >> >> Hauke >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > Hi Hauke, > Hi All, > > Some targets are still on (EOL) kernel 3.18 today. > This kernel also still exists by the grace of Greg K-H but could be > dropped any moment. > > I've bumped it a few times (untested) just for the sake of security > updates. > But afaict, nobody attempted/requested to update these to a newer kernel > version. > > These targets were also dropped in 18.06 branch. > Maybe we should also consider dropping support for these targets in master? > > > adm5120 > xburst > mcs814x > au1000 > ppc40x > adm8668 > ppc44x
I vote for removing them if on one wants to take care of these targets. If something breaks kernel < 4.9 I anyway do not care any more. Hauke
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