From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:24:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211014142409.2b329ff1@crub> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0yKvZW2-XFJtPORpa=FhG+UJgk=m0O1GiC_yLw+1Pfvw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:44:46 +0200
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 12:12 AM Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:39:56 +0200
>> Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wrote:
>> ...
>> >Grant Likely was the original maintainer for MPC52xx until 2011,
>> >Anatolij Gustschin is still listed as maintainer since then but hasn't
>> >been active in it for a while either. Anatolij can probably best judge
>> >which of these boards are still in going to be used with future kernels,
>> >but I suspect once you start removing bits from 52xx, the newer
>> >but less common 512x platform can go away as well.
>>
>> many of these boards are still used, i.e. o2d*, digsy_mtc, tqm5200.
>
>Just for clarification, I assume when you say "still used" that implies
>getting updated to new kernels rather than just running the old BSPs,
>right?
yes, at least some of them. I used v5.4 kernel on digsy_mtc and
tqm5200 last year, and v5.10 kernel is also known to work.
>What are the typical distro release cycles for those machines
>you list: do you move from one LTS kernel to the next each year,
>or are they getting more sporadic over time?
these machines are in embedded systems and do not get regular
distro updates, therefore more sporadic over time.
>Do you expect the machines with the lowest memory such as the
>32MB digsy to stop getting kernel updates before the others?
No. There are also digsy variants with 256MiB DRAM.
Thanks,
Anatolij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-14 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-08 5:47 linux-next: build warnings in Linus' tree Stephen Rothwell
2021-10-10 21:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-10-11 20:42 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-12 14:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-10-13 22:12 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2021-10-13 22:17 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-13 22:28 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2021-10-13 23:22 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-14 8:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-10-14 12:24 ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]
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2022-06-14 6:57 Stephen Rothwell
2022-05-26 7:21 Stephen Rothwell
2022-01-27 4:30 Stephen Rothwell
2022-01-27 6:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-27 16:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2022-01-27 4:24 Stephen Rothwell
2021-11-22 22:44 Stephen Rothwell
2021-11-23 7:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-11-05 5:03 Stephen Rothwell
2021-10-12 10:56 Stephen Rothwell
2021-10-12 20:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-07 23:11 Stephen Rothwell
2020-09-08 13:14 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-09-09 0:15 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-04-03 22:19 Stephen Rothwell
2020-04-03 23:16 ` Rob Herring
2020-04-03 23:31 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2017-11-13 21:52 Stephen Rothwell
2017-11-13 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-04 4:58 Stephen Rothwell
2013-07-09 21:48 ` Nikolova, Tatyana E
2011-08-15 1:57 Stephen Rothwell
2011-05-23 1:25 Stephen Rothwell
2011-05-23 2:31 ` Eduardo Silva
2011-01-14 0:17 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-14 0:09 Stephen Rothwell
2011-01-14 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-14 1:06 ` Greg KH
2010-08-17 1:24 Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-30 1:42 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-30 6:08 ` Zhang Rui
2010-09-03 2:01 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-03 2:36 ` Len Brown
2010-09-17 4:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-27 13:31 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-07 2:21 Stephen Rothwell
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