[Letux-kernel] Long-Term kernels

[David Shah]

Trying letux-5.10.y and the annoying display-not-being-loaded issue has
come back to bite again, even though we are now baking omapdrm into the
kernel in the Pyra config.

On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 18:14 +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> > Am 21.12.2020 um 18:00 schrieb David Shah <dave at ds0.me>:
> > 
> > It would be nice to get 5.10 up and running on the Pyra,
> 
> Well, for me it is running and I am not aware of bigger issues. But I
> am not using it daily so that I may miss some problems.
> 
> > despite not containing
> > the new panel driver yet (afaik).
> 
> Yes, the new panel driver will not come before v5.12. But IMHO it has
> no functional difference. Is just much cleaner and upstreamable code.
> So no need to wait for it.
> 
> > 
> > Though I haven't tested, I suspect the biggest issue is going to be
> > the
> > DPMS/stuck atomic update issue that is somewhere in the display/DRM
> > code
> > discussed previously and has likely been present since 5.7 ish.
> 
> I think there was some fix a while ago which may also be in 5.9.
> But I currently don't have the Pyra in operation to check.
> 
> Generally I think the best strategy for PyraOS would be to use and
> maintain
> 5.10.y as the next long-term kernel.
> 
> BR,
> Nikolaus
> 
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 16:12 +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > > v5.9.16 was just tagged [EOL].
> > > 
> > > According to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html the
> > > long-term
> > > kernels will be:
> > > 
> > > - 5.10
> > > - 5.4
> > > - 4.19
> > > - 4.14
> > > - 4.9
> > > - 4.4   (maintenance ends in 2 months - but we anyways have no
> > > letux-4.4)
> > > 
> > > For Letux-Kernels we will follow this scheme.
> > > 
> > > BR,
> > > Nikolaus
> > > 
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