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Wed, 5 Oct 2022 07:32:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 06:32:57 -0500 From: Patrick Williams To: William Kennington Subject: Re: Linux kernel updates and v6.0 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HsdF0RaLPKdH1vxy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Development list for OpenBMC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: OpenBMC Maillist , Joel Stanley Errors-To: openbmc-bounces+openbmc=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "openbmc" --HsdF0RaLPKdH1vxy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joel, Any thoughts on this? On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 03:30:23PM -0700, William Kennington wrote: > The ToF was talking about linux versions being used for OpenBMC users and > we were wondering if we could codify a policy around which versions we wi= ll > be developing against regularly. In the past it seems like you usually pi= ck > LTS releases to base on (and Facebook / Google are interested in sticking > with LTS releases in order to reduce toil / number of potentially > incompatible kernel upgrades for each of our machines). It would seem like > kernel 6.0 should be an LTS release, although gregkh hasn't said anything > specifically about it yet. Can we get something written about the expected > alignment with upstream kernel release cadence? For minor clairification, I believe it was Intel / Google that preferred LTS. Meta does not have a preference as long as the OpenBMC tree is well-supported and we can backport changes that have been sent upstream. > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:35 PM Joel Stanley wrote: >=20 > > Hello OpenBMC, > > > > We've been using the v5.15 kernel as a base for almost 11 months. In > > that time there's been 16 bumps to pull in stable fixes. We have > > merged about 300 patches in that time to support new machines, and new > > hardware, including MCTP, nct6775, lm25066, aspeed-adc and aspeed's > > spi-nor devices. > > > > It's time to move to a new base to ensure progress is made on our > > mission to upstream all of the support. By rebasing on a new kernel > > release we can see what work has been done, and what remains. Since > > v5.15 we have upstream support for: > > > > - PECI, thanks to Jae and Iwona > > - MCTP, thanks to Jermey and Matt > > - spi-nor, thanks to C=E9dric > > - nct6775 i2c and lm25066, thanks to Zev > > - ast2600 adc, thanks to Billy > > - ast2600 gfx, thanks to Tommy > > > > and others I have missed. > > > > In addition to the ASPEED changes the Nuvton hackers have been hard at > > work. We now have support for their latest generation Cortex-A35 BMC, > > the npcm845 "Arbel" and it's eval board. Likewise the HPE "GXP" > > Cortex-A9 ASIC now has upstream support. Congratulations to both teams > > for this work. > > > > I have prepared a v6.0 tree that contains backports of the FSI and > > Aspeed v6.1 patches, and a small set of existing patches. I will > > publish this on Monday, or once v6.0 final has been tagged. > > > > As promised the last time we rebased, the Nuvoton patches that have > > not seen any updates since they were merged in 2019 have been dropped. > > They are welcome to be resubmitted as long as they are also being > > worked on upstream. > > > > Please address any future patches to the dev-6.0 tree. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Joel > > --=20 Patrick Williams --HsdF0RaLPKdH1vxy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEBGD9ii4LE9cNbqJBqwNHzC0AwRkFAmM9a2cACgkQqwNHzC0A wRm7LQ//cHyCAFhQtWL4Q4IuY6q6e+cSCqHRdFwMiwAizyrsFlpaBa/hEGk8aqIy poTVRRRqKMcetiAkIXVQnfb9bRQ3/O4YEbpOQhEhfey+6QF9av4NXD+uDVAuCyUc nV7B9hJHHozKDnwG/uxaFXdxfIy6boN6GM0mO14m9SzUNVuC3Ez/oO5SggYbqFFw eL3GNVu8kZGX/2oQhfAr3F4KCn0Tgab0q3YZ8n0PjCwzpiefhUxBu1K5464IZRtW 2YegDtesV33EWUlAfl4+bftMmcOzZuS+lcFoUeO78VtWzppeSjQ9nD2euLF7hmkA lNiR8lzfMPMV9DvF/T/bziu4dIhrNcfk/sySXzadikhvfIJBmPVaAVs9kcIQB2Tr QI0w4+8OmD3QIcC3hFNfp3dAW/UDIIv87+hweyx1CsEGV17/cRLr6mpbubJz8feu FMZQ7YuVnDfqFfPj8WjjT13z9pqBx+ugdYO/SsgHmUm6EHskqKDewMQqAF/Aj+Lu XGX82DqFS224Jhe9Z1S8bGAyTMzs2QXCeXrZcf7jIONGjbP+QaCt71wHZeY9IKcA HUfsYXcj/EFWd0epbAS/4ZTJZegCS3nqBGRZK3xn9N43QDeq7N2wgM5R1mzIivjC B6PNwgfVZnxQZlRn9wGh+A6fEHn/zdYK2a7z9DIgnTAiNtoOFz8= =h6AO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HsdF0RaLPKdH1vxy--