[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] kernel-devsrc: tweak for v5.3+

Mittal, Anuj anuj.mittal at intel.com
Fri Aug 30 02:13:23 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 08:27 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 5:17 AM Mittal, Anuj <anuj.mittal at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 11:31 -0400, bruce.ashfield at gmail.com wrote:
> > > From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > The 5.3 kernel has two changes that require tweaks to the minimal
> > > kernel-devsrc package.
> > > 
> > > - 4ce97317f [x86/purgatory: Do not use __builtin_memcpy and
> > > __builtin_memset]
> > > 
> > >   This change removes the need for arch/x86/purgatory/string.c
> > > and
> > >   instead reuses a copy in arch/x86/boot/compressed/, so we can't
> > > copy
> > >   the file anymore. To support older kernels, we make the copy
> > > survive
> > >   the non-existence of the file.
> > > 
> > 
> > This change was merged in 4.19 stable kernel as well. Can this be
> > merged in our stable branches as well please?
> 
> It already is (just not pushed), I just wasn't doing -stable updates
> along with 5.2 intro .. there's only so many things I can debug and
> regression test at one time. Hopefully I'll get through the 5.2 work
> soon and finish the rest of my queue.

Thank you Bruce. I meant that this kernel-devsrc fix should be merged
in yocto stable branch, warrior, regardless of the 4.19 kernel version
there.

Thanks,

Anuj


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