[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 83977fe3b6

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for your feedback!

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:27:11 +0100
Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net> wrote:

> > What is the reason for bumping to 83977fe3b6 in master ? And then to
> > ebf7b40cdc in next ?  
> 
> Sorry for the confusion, preparing the bump (maybe buildroot-master) to 
> 
>  - kernel 877656cd14 (4.14.98, up-to-date one from the 4.14 branch)
>  - firmware 83977fe3b6, last commit before [1]:
>  
> 	kernel bump to 4.19.23
> 
> 	See: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=224931

What are the firmware changes between what's currently in master and
83977fe3b6 ? Does it make sense to apply this to master ?

> overlapped with the release of 4.19.23 [3] and the follow up bump (major kernel
> update for buildroot-next) to
> 
>   - kernel 5eeff139ea (4.19.23)
>   - firmware ebf7b40cdc [2], one commit after [1],

So the firmware version ebf7b40cdc is needed to boot a 4.19 kernel ? Is
it backward compatible with the 4.14 kernel ?

Thomas
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