[Letux-kernel] Kernel v5.1-rc1 (was: LetuxOS Kernel v5.0-rc1)

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 21.03.2019 um 18:48 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:55:12 +0100
> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> As expected it runs into merge conflicts...
>> 
>> Seems as if we have an "evil merge" here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt#L981
>> 
>> So we need new ideas to debug this issue. git bisect does not help...
>> 
> hmm, backlight+display works out of the box with some 4.20 dtb here.

Does it work with 5.0 for you (kernel + dtb)? Does 5.1-rc1 uImage work with 5.0 dtb?
Do the binaries differ? For me there was no diff between 5.0 dtb and 5.1-rc1.

> That pattern seems to be stable.
> I am analyzing...
> 
> rmmod pwm_bl ; modprobe pwm_bl
> seems not to help to solve the bl_power = 4 issue
> 
> uname -r | qrencode -s 10 -o /tmp/ver.png
> fbpng /tmp/ver.png
> 
> seems to be enough to display the kernel version as a qrcode.
> zbarcam happily recognizes it. So if we need autotests here,
> I am prepared...

Cool!!!

BR,
Nikolaus