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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: 40190@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Subject: [bug#40190] Linux-Libre 5.6
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:35:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zekfk3c.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv24mnbo.fsf@ponder>

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Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

> On 2020-03-31, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 2020-03-30, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> And the second patch, switching to 5.5...
>>>
>>> And a third, rougher, less well tested patch switching to 5.6... which
>>> could obviously be squashed into the previous patches and maybe skip 5.5
>>> altogether.
>>
>> 5.5 is not an LTS kernel, so going straight to 5.6 sounds like the
>> right thing to do.  However...
>>
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-arm.conf b/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-arm.conf
>>> similarity index 100%
>>> rename from gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-arm.conf
>>> rename to gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-arm.conf
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-arm64.conf b/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-arm64.conf
>>> similarity index 100%
>>> rename from gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-arm64.conf
>>> rename to gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-arm64.conf
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-i686.conf b/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-i686.conf
>>> similarity index 100%
>>> rename from gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-i686.conf
>>> rename to gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-i686.conf
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-x86_64.conf b/gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-x86_64.conf
>>> similarity index 100%
>>> rename from gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.5-x86_64.conf
>>> rename to gnu/packages/aux-files/linux-libre/5.6-x86_64.conf
>>
>> This does not seem right.  Surely there are _some_ configuration changes
>> in 5.6?
>
> Hence the "rough" patch.
>
> I honestly don't feel solid on all the configuration changes that need
> to happen, so haven't been particularly thorough on auditing those.
>
> Running through "make oldconfig" prompted me with many options about
> things I didn't really have a good grasp of, so the 5.5 changes at
> essentially just the 5.4*.conf copied to 5.5*.conf, and applying the
> copying the resulting .config from building the kernel into git...
>
> I could do the same for 5.6 again blindly taking the new defaults... or
> if someone could help with auditing the config updates, that would be
> great!
>
>
> FWIW, also boot-tested linux-libre-arm64-generic with 5.6 as well.
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant

From a quick test I made, support for the Wireguard VPN or the exfat
file system in 5.6 is not activated by default when using 'make
oldconfig' or 'make olddefconfig'.
I think it would be nice to set them to 'module'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-31 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-19 19:14 RFC: Linux-Libre 5.5.x on pinebook pro Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-19 19:25 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-20  4:35   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-22 13:21 ` RFC: Linux-Libre 5.5.x Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-23  4:08   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-23  4:08     ` [bug#40190] " Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-30 17:32     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-30 17:34       ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-31  0:10         ` [bug#40190] Linux-Libre 5.6 Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-31 14:30           ` Marius Bakke
2020-03-31 17:44             ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-03-31 18:35               ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2020-04-03 23:28               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-03 23:29                 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-16 19:37                   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-17 19:26                     ` Mark H Weaver
2020-06-08 20:46                       ` [bug#40190] Linux-Libre 5.7 Vagrant Cascadian
2020-06-08 20:52                         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-06-09  2:43                       ` [bug#40190] Linux-Libre 5.6 Leo Famulari
2020-04-06  4:12     ` [bug#40190] Works for me Brendan Tildesley
2020-04-06 10:38       ` [bug#40190] v4l2loopback module builds with 5.4 but not 5.6 Brendan Tildesley
2020-04-06 10:46         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-04-06 11:01         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-08-05 21:29     ` bug#40190: Linux-Libre 5.5.x Leo Famulari

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