[Macchiato] Mainstream Linux kernel

[Riku Voipio]

On 30 April 2018 at 13:37, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 07:49:51PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
>> Hi again.
>>
>> Following the instruction here: https://elinux.org/Marvell_EBU:Mainline_Linux
>> I confirm that I have linux 4.14 fully working on the macchiatobin by
>> compiling the devel-4.14/all branch of
>> https://github.com/MISL-EBU-System-SW/mainline-public

> The diff between that branch and 4.14 is 5MB in size. Much of which
> looks unrelated to this.

Start from 4.14.22 and it make more sense. After that, majority of the
spurious delta comes still from backports branch which brings in some
SPDX changes. Fair enough, git can be painful. For a bit more useful
dig what is missing from the real mainline:

git log --oneline mvebu-mainline/devel-4.14/all...v4.14.22

Ignoring the other marvell platforms, For macchiatobin the only really
interesting functions this kernel has compared to mainline 4.16, is
support for the 10G interfaces and crypto accelerators. Which matches
my experience with the mainline 4.15 and 4.16 kernel Debian uses.

Riku