Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v5 00/13] support for ARM32 arndale and cubietruck platforms

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 18:54 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 10:56 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > I've managed to make a habit of forgetting to mention one important
> > > point (including hitting send on this bit in reply to v4!)
> > > 
> > > Both the cubietruck and the arndale are (for different reasons) not
> > > supported by the 3.14 kernel which we currently use as a baseline for
> > > osstest testing.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if another LTS kernel is due from upstream soon or not, if
> > > not then I think we will need to resurrect the linux-arm-xen branch and
> > > use it for all arm platforms (including midway, since I don't think we
> > > want to take on the complexity of differing per platform).
> > > 
> > > So far I've been testing using v3.16.7, which is the last 3.16 longterm
> > > release, however canonical are carrying it on at
> > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y
> > > (up to 3.16.7-ckt4 at the moment). This is the same base as Debian will
> > > be shipping in Jessie. So that is one option.
> > > 
> > > Stefano, do you have another preference?
> > 
> > We discussed this IRL and are going to resurrect the linux-arm-xen
> > branch following the Canonical stable v3.16 branch.
> > 
> > Stefano,
> > 
> > Please could you pull from git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git and
> > the force push::
> 
> Actually I think we should follow
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git 
> linux-3.16.y

There are no more updates to this, since it is not a kernel.org LTS
kernel.

The canonical kernel team (ckt in the tag name) are doing ongoing stable
support for these kernels (which is also being consumed by Debian).

> > The commit pointed to by tag v3.16.7-ckt4 (i.e. v3.16.7-ckt4~0) to the
> 
> I was talking about v3.16.7

This doesn't have e.g. the swiotlb/dma fixes which you have had
backported, those are in the ckt kernels only.

Ian.


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