On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:59 AM Paul Gortmaker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Bruce, Yocto kernel folks:
>
> Here is the next 5.2.x stable update "extension" primarily created for
> the Yocto project, as the next v5.2.x post-EOL release.
>
> The content is from an audit of what went into the v5.4.22 to v5.4.24
> releases - plus any upstream commits listed as Fixes: for backports in
> the above v5.4.x content, and a few upstream commits for recent CVE.
>
> There are just over 540 commits deployed here that were applicable for
> this v5.2.40 release, perhaps the largest yet?  Seems to be the trend..
>
> KVM had ~20 so I did an extra sanity test with v5.2.40-defconfig plus KVM
> options enabled and used the same kernel binary as host and as the guest
> kernel on an older Xeon E5530 COTS platform, and things seemed as normal.
>
> I've also put this 5.2.40 queue through the normal testing; build
> testing on x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis
> and finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64.
>

Thanks Paul!

This is now merged.

Bruce

> Please find tag v5.2.40 (a45fc60d807e224eea2aae5690b87f946ae13bbb) as
> the current head of linux-5.2.y branch in the repo in the kernel.org
> directory here:
>
>   
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git/?h=linux-5.2.y
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git
>
> for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-5.2 and then out from there
> into the other base and BSP branches.
>
> For those who are interested, the evolution of the commits is here:
>
>   https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-5.2.git/
>
> This repo isn't needed for anything; it just exists for transparency and
> so people can see the evolution of the raw commits that were originally
> selected to create this 5.2.x release.
>
> Paul.



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