From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 21:40:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] qemu_arm_vexpress: use latest Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <20180506163059.5801-1-Florian.LaRoche@googlemail.com> References: <20180506163059.5801-1-Florian.LaRoche@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <20180506214044.786e3dbd@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Florian, Thanks for your contribution. On Sun, 6 May 2018 18:30:59 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote: > There should be no reason to keep the qemu_arm_vexpress target > on an older kernel release, so change this to build with the latest > Linux kernel release for buildroot. > > > Signed-off-by: Florian La Roche There is a reason why all defconfigs used a fixed U-Boot / kernel version: we want those versions to have been tested and confirmed to work on the target platform. So, a patch updating to Linux 4.16 would be fine, but not a patch that changes to automatically use the latest version. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com