[poky] [PATCH] meta-yocto-bsp: bump to the latest linux stable kernel for the non-x86 BSPs

[Khem Raj]

On 6/11/18 3:21 AM, Kevin Hao wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:35:17AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 08:08 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2018-06-10 at 15:06 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
>>>> Bump to the latest stable kernel for 4.12, 4.14 and 4.15.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <kexin.hao at windriver.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this. This addresses some of the failures we saw but not
>>> for
>>> edgerouter:
>>>
>>> https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-mips-lsb/builds/1046/st
>>> eps/BuildImages_1/logs/stdio
>>> https://autobuilder.yocto.io/builders/nightly-mips/builds/1050/steps/
>>> BuildImages_1/logs/stdio
>>>
>>> Any idea why that is contiuing to fail on 4.14 and 4.15? Were the
>>> patches for gcc8 not merged into that branch?
>>
>> Perhaps we need https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvald
>> s/linux.git/commit/?id=2479bfc9bc600dcce7f932d52dcfa8d677c41f93
>> converted for mips?
> 
> No. The CFLAGS which is set to workaround the gcc 8 warning has been override
> when some kernel options are enabled. I composed a patch [1] to fix this.
> 
> [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/linux-yocto/2018-June/007140.html
> 

this looks good for upstreaming as well.

> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
>>
>> Also https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>> /commit/?id=415520373975d2eba565c256d2cad875ed4e9243
>>
>> This looks like the upstream version of Khem's ppc fix.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>