On 2020-03-22, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-03-19, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> I've been working on trying to get a mainline or nearly mainline kernel
>> working for pinebook pro, and there's a little better support in
>> linux-libre 5.5.
>>
>> According to:
>>
>>   https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/
>>
>> The 5.5 patches have been available since late January, and seem to be
>> getting regular updates as needed.
>>
>> So far, I haven't had time to test and update linux-libre 5.5 with the
>> kernel configs and so on, so I've been working on a
>> linux-libre-arm64-generic package that uses the defconfig (much like
>> linux-libre-arm-generic) and linux-libre 5.5.x.
>
> I was able to test linux-libre 5.5.10 on x86_64 by copying the 5.4
> kernel config over to 5.5 and building, and it seemed to work fine.
>
> I also did a build of linux-libre-arm-generic using 5.5.10, and it
> seemed to work fine as well.
>
> It also occurs to me that it would be nice to get a newer kernel into
> the upcoming release, unless there's a reason not to...

Updated patch series, which also includes updating the default
linux-libre to 5.5.

I haven't done a full audit of the changes from 5.4 to 5.5 in the kernel
config files generated, but these at least booted on x86_64, aarch64 and
armhf.

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  vagrant