On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Herve Jourdain <herve.jourd...@neuf.fr> wrote: > Hi Khem, > > If I may, I have an interest in keeping 4.7 for a few more months (2 or 3 I > guess). > I'm using it for a few things, and I don't currently plan to switch to 4.8, > but rather to 4.9 when it's more stable (hence the 2 or 3 additional > months). > As you already know, 4.9 is supposed to be the next LTS (if Greg > Kroah-Hartman doesn't change his mind), and I'd like to wait for it while > keep using the version I already use. > > This said, given the recent rebasing on the raspberrypi github, at least for > version 4.7, it definitely is a maintenance burden. > If that can help, I'm volunteering to maintain the revision for the 4.7 > raspberrypi linux kernel, for the next 2 to 3 months. > > After that, the question that will remain is what revisions do we keep: we > currently have 4.1, 4.4, 4.7 and 4.8. > We will soon have 4.9. > 4.1 and 4.4 are LTS (EOL = 09/2017 & 02/2018), neither 4.7 nor 4.8 will be, > and 4.9 is supposed to be. > What do you think we should do, scrap 4.1 and 4.7, leaving 4.4, 4.8 and 4.9? > Or keep only the LTS ones?
Two LTS and one latest version of given time should be sufficient. I should have deleted 4.7 when 4.8 came out. > > Herve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Khem Raj [mailto:raj.k...@gmail.com] > Sent: jeudi 17 novembre 2016 18:17 > To: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourd...@neuf.fr>; yocto@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb: > upgrade to latest good version > > > > On 11/17/16 5:13 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourd...@neuf.fr> >> --- >> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb >> b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb >> index 0315f8f..4a8fe36 100644 >> --- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb >> +++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb >> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ >> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:" >> >> -LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.7" >> +LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.10" > > I think, we should abandon all non-lts recipes except one which will be > latest release ( 4.8 ) as of today. > >> >> -SRCREV = "a45a35c08598b23f9fd82e49c83b46c7d536244f" >> +SRCREV = "e7fa325a40f260ed9fb86391a0b65150eba8c112" >> SRC_URI = > "git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-4.7.y \ >> file://0001-fix-dtbo-rules.patch \ " >> > > -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto