[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] configs/qemu_*: bump kernel version to 5.4.88

[Romain Naour]

Hello,

Le 11/01/2021 à 02:09, Joel Stanley a écrit :
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 20:39, Geoffrey Le Gourriérec
> <geoffrey.legourrierec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bump QEMU defconfigs to latest longterm kernel 5.4.88.
>>
>> Please note that QEMU boards not based on 5.4.y were ignored:
>> - qemu_csky810_virt_defconfig
>> - qemu_csky807_virt_defconfig
>> - qemu_csky610_virt_defconfig
>> - qemu_csky860_virt_defconfig
>>
>> Tests were carried out on all QEMU boards using Gitlab [1] (commit
>> message was slightly different, but the patch is identical)
>>
>> Additional actions needed were:
>> - board/qemu/sh4-r2d: Remove one of the two kernel patches [2] provided
>>   by Alan Modra fixing rodata alignment, carried here by Romain Naour [3]
>>   to fix an issue preventing kernel from booting with binutils 2.23.
>>   Patch is present in upstream Linux now.
>>
>> [1] https://gitlab.com/clumsyape/buildroot/-/pipelines/239483891
>> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html
>> [3] https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/commit/?id=a2331c8a61bdd71c47492efc818fb0458a349219
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Le Gourriérec <geoffrey.legourrierec at gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks for doing this. For the powerpc boards in particular:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> 
> Is there a plan to move boards up to v5.10 now that is the latest LTS?

Yes, that's something we can do for 2021.02.

@Geoffrey, if you're interested to do this change, feel free to do it :)

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel
> 
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