Re: [meta-raspberrypi][morty][PATCH 0/2] Stable branch kernel upgrades

[Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>]

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 02:04:41AM +0000, Khem Raj wrote:
> Kernel upgrades for kernels are probably fine it's just incompatible
> metadata changes that we have to be careful about
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 3:20 AM Paul Barker <paul@paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > I'm not 100% sure what the current policy is for upgrading the kernel in
> > meta-raspberrypi on a stable branch. I think it's a good idea to pull in
> > upgrades from the stable kernel series when available though so that we can
> > incorporate any upstream bugfixes. I'm also only considering backporting
> > upgrades we've already made on master.
> >

I do agree as well that kernel updates are a good idea to backport as
long as they build and boot fine.

> > I've also picked up the upgrade to the 4.9 kernel recipe as the old git
> > hash
> > no longer exists upstream.
> >
> > I've built & boot tested both 4.4 and 4.9 kernels on a rpi3 using morty
> > plus
> > these patches.
> >
> > Let me know if this is wanted for stable branches or not. If it is wanted,
> > I'll
> > try to do this once a month or so for morty (and pyro when it's released)
> > until
> > the end of the 12-month support period for each release.
> >

Sounds good. Thanks Paul.

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Andrei Gherzan
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