[OE-core] [PATCH 0/6] linux-yocto: consolidated pull request (5.0 kernel intro)

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:05 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 11:37 -0500, bruce.ashfield at gmail.com wrote:
> > The -rc8 of the kernel pushed this out a week longer than I would
> > have liked, but luckily the -dev kernel has been running 5.0 for
> > quite a while, so most of the issues had been worked out already.
> >
> > In this series we have the bump of the libc-headers to 5.0, I've
> > built all arches for both musl and glibc, with no issues popping
> > up due to the headers bump. A few patches were dropped, since they
> > are now upstream.
> >
> > I've also introduce the 5.0 versioned recipe in this series and
> > adjusted the two machines that still have a preferred version to
> > use it. Again, this was built and booted on all arches and over
> > several image types (minimal, sato, kernel-dev).
> >
> > As usual lttng was tweaked to work with 5.0, but I was able to
> > keep it on the same 2.10 stable branch and only pull in a few
> > pending patches that haven't been formally released yet.
> >
> > Once we get the h/w reference boards, and reference distros moved
> > to 4.19 and 5.0, I'll send a follow up patch to remove 4.18
> > from master.
> >
> > I'll send follow up patches to the yocto-bsps and poky as
> > appropriate, but until the last few issues are resolved, they can
> > stay out of tree.
> >
> > I captured as many details as possible in the commit messages of
> > the individual patches.
>
> Thanks Bruce!
>
> Just to summarise where we're at:
>
> a) The runtime stap tests fail everywhere, we probably need systemtap
>    patches.

Fixes. Patches out shortly.

> b) Issue with KMACHINE_qemuarm = "qemuarma15" not working, blocks
>    qemuarm armv7 switch

I can have a look at this on Thursday.

> c) qemumips and qemuppc:
>    https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/60/builds/365/steps/7/logs/step1c
>    https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/63/builds/365/steps/7/logs/step1c
>    RESULTS - kernelmodule.KernelModuleTest.test_kernel_module - Testcase 1541: FAILED

Fixed, patches out shortly.

> d) perf do_compile race seen on qemuarm64 (didn't reproduce locally):
>    https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/42/builds/366/steps/7/logs/step1b

I can't reproduce this one either.

> e) qemuarm64 graphics startup issue
>

Not sure on this one.

Bruce

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>


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