On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:36:08PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > It's release day and while we've once again had some last minute > > regression fixes, I feel things are as stable as they are likely to get > > so I've tagged and released v2019.07 and I would like to thank all of > > our contributor for their efforts. > > > > To repeat something I posted about in the previous -rc release, I've > > clarified on the http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CustodianGitTrees page > > that the "next" branch is expected to be rebased. Why? While I'm not > > sure if I want to apply things directly to the next branch and then give > > them some sort of automated testing, I do want to try and give changes > > some sort of build testing and similar sooner than I have, and that was > > at least a related problem. > > > > In terms of a changelog, > > git log --merges v2019.10-rc4..v2019.10 > > or > > git log --merges v2019.07..v2019.10 > > > > For this next release, one big concern I have but that I am hopeful we > > will be able to overcome is that we need to remove Python 2.7 support. > > Python 2.7 itself is end of lifed on January 1st, 2020. There's been a > > number of patches posted that get us a good part of the way there and I > > believe we can get the rest done before the deadline. > > I think the big missing piece was to rebase libfdt to the upstream > 1.5.x series that now supports python3, the issue there from memory > was that it bloats some things, Simon was investigating and going to > post a patch set for upstream dtc/libfdt to resolve some of the issues > but I'm not sure if he'd reported back on the latest status of that > work.
The libfdt part, by itself, turns out to be easy (just the normal convert to python3 setup.py or whatever). But binman/buildman/test.py all need updating and are real work. -- Tom
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