Hi all;

I'm currently building our packages with latest 3.4.56 kernel, which btw
is expected to build and work for 5.0.1.
If no showstoppers occure I'll do a first rc later this week.


I have committed also some changes for a new boot menu into next.
It has improvements for vga based version, like a new boot screen with
our new logo, hardware detection if we decide to include and even
memtest. I tested on a spare alix box if it still boots, it does, but
it's currently useless.
So my first proposal is that we update the vga based versions for
5.1-beta and look for a solution for serial versions later.
I'd like to ask for help to test vga versions and probably improve
serial versions.

Yesterday the kernel maintainers announced that the 3.10 kernel will be
next long-term maintained kernel. This is intersting because the 3.10
kernel supports more arm devices, esp the raspberry pi, without heavy
patching the kernel.
First tests, done a few weeks ago, showed that during 3.4 and 3.10
serious changes has been applied, requiring some more work on a lot of
packages including patching of uClibc (see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/20/419 and http://lwn.net/Articles/507794/
and my mail on leaf-devel "findings with kernel 3.10-rc4").
Anyway, with 3.10 announced as a new long-term kernel, it will be a good
target for LEAF Bering-uClibc 5.1.
The second proposal for 5.1 will be to update the kernel (and packages)
to 3.10. This requires more help working on packages, that failed on
latest tests.

And finally, if we can improve and include Andrews proposal to build
linux-headers/toolchain separately from the remaining packages to speed
up building, it would be a nice improvement.

What do you think?
kp

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