Hi; Am 06.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Andrew: > Hi. > > 06.08.2013 20:28, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: >> 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. > It'll be OK. We have almost nothing that is kernel-related, except > kernel, initmod and moddb/kmodules. So kernel upgrade will not be > painful for end users, even they can run old kernel with fresh userland.
But it's a pain for us, when trying to update :) I get a a lot of packages failing to build. See the the links I've mentioned, which explains why it happens. If you have some spare time, pls give it a try. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
