On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 at 15:18, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, at 06:02, Pintu Kumar Agarwal wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 10:35, Siddh Raman Pant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:57:18 +0530 को Pintu Kumar Agarwal ने लिखा : > >> > We have an arm32 based embedded product which is based on the 3.18 > >> > kernel and a simple busybox. > >> > We wanted to support the Y2038 issue on this older kernel. > >> > Is this feasible > >> > Do we have the Y2038 separate patches available for both kernel and > >> > userspace > >> > ? > >> > Or upgrading the kernel is the only option ? > >> > >> Upgrading is a much much better option. > >> > > Yes, I understand, but upgrading the kernel on this older SoC brings > > more complexities, challenges and time taking. > > Customers also do not agree for the upgrade at this stage and they are > > looking for alternatives. > > So, we are exploring both the options right now. > > > > Are there any patchset maintained separately for this Y2038 issue for > > each kernel version to have a look ? > > I used to maintain a 5.4 kernel with backports from the 5.6 patches, > but I would not recommend using that. Anything earlier than 5.4 > is completely hopeless for 2038 because one would have to essentially > redo the changes from scratch. > OK thanks.
> Which chip exactly are you using? This request is for one of the legacy QC MDM 9K chipset. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
