[Macchiato] Mainstream Linux kernel

[Matteo Croce]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org> wrote:
> 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

Which are the upstream plans reagarding the ethernet card?
mvpp2 will still used or mvpp2x will eventually enter upstream?

-- 
Matteo Croce
OpenWrt Developer

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