[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 83977fe3b6
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sat Feb 23 14:54:37 UTC 2019
Hello Peter,
Thanks for your feedback!
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:27:11 +0100
Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> 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
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