From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:54:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 83977fe3b6 In-Reply-To: <20190223152711.6caac341@gmx.net> References: <20190222223704.6202-1-ps.report@gmx.net> <20190222223704.6202-2-ps.report@gmx.net> <20190223143753.59fcb120@windsurf.home> <20190223152711.6caac341@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20190223155437.0988855f@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Peter, Thanks for your feedback! On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:27:11 +0100 Peter Seiderer 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com