[Lenny400] Some tentative changes to the mainline kernel

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Paul,

Am 04.04.2015 um 15:04 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:

> On Saturday 4. April 2015 14.23.59 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> 
>> No, they should be quite independent. The branch above is a torvalds/linux
>> plus approx. 140 differences to make it work on the GTA04.
>> 
>> And we regularily merge in linus/master so that we keep up to date.
>> 
>> Do you know which exact release (tag) you did base your work on?
> 
> No, I can only provide the changeset:
> 
> commit a39bdfb590f54d0f41d6a5b352b085322d007dcd
> Merge: a7fe850 ae6ee2f
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Fri Mar 27 14:45:42 2015 -0700
> 
>    Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog
> 
>> Then we can quite easily rebase to 4.0-rc6 and merge things together.
> 
> Given that the starting changeset was just after a merge from 4.0-rc6, that 
> shouldn’t be too difficult.

I have checked out the base commit and applied your patch and I am really impressed:

arch/mips/boot/uImage: u-boot legacy uImage, Linux-4.0.0-rc5+, Linux/MIPS, OS Kernel Image (gzip), 2753935 bytes, Sat Apr  4 19:22:25 2015, Load Address: 0x80010000, Entry Point: 0x803E98A0, Header CRC: 0xEE3F7379, Data CRC: 0xC81DF3D8

So we have a great starting point. At least it compiles :)

Kudos to Paul!

Next I will add Daniel’s patch and if you agree I will add your “Signed-off”.

I assume Linux will publish 4.0.0-rc7 on Monday/Tuesday. Then I will upgrade (merge)
and publish the results.

Maybe for simplicity I will merge the MIPS work with the GTA04 ARM work,
since they should not interfere and just having one branch for multiple machines
is the easiest. I will keep you updated where the tree finally is :)

BR,
Nikolaus