[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] configs/solidrun_macchiatobin_marvell: bump component versions
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Sep 16 09:31:55 UTC 2018
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 10:15:01AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:21:41 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > # Kernel
> > > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
> > > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL=y
> > > -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="$(call github,MarvellEmbeddedProcessors,linux-marvell,linux-4.4.52-armada-17.10)/linux-linux-4.4.52-armada-17.10.tar.gz"
> > > +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION="$(call github,MarvellEmbeddedProcessors,linux-marvell,linux-4.4.52-armada-17.10)/linux-linux-4.4.120-armada-18.09.tar.gz"
> >
> > Why not bump to linux-4.14.22-armada-18.09? Is there any missing functionality
> > in that release?
>
> My understanding is that 4.4 is the BSP version that Marvell considers
> complete and stable, which has received full QA testing. 4.14 is still
> in development, and will be fully ready by the end of the year.
> Therefore, in this defconfig using vendor-provided versions of the
> components, it probably makes sense to stick to 4.4 for now ?
Sounds reasonable to me. The commit log should probably include this
information.
baruch
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