Moving kernel to 5.1

[Patrick Venture]

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:30 AM Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>
> Hello OpenBMC developers,
>
> Linux 5.1 was tagged a few days ago. I've rebased the openbmc tree on
> this release and pushed a dev-5.1 branch to github.
>
> Please take a look at the bump commit, give it a spin on your
> hardware, and +1 if it looks good to you:
>
>  https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/meta-aspeed/+/21212

Quanta-q71l-variation booted to userspace.

>  https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/meta-nuvoton/+/21287
>
> I've had a look at the patches we're carrying in the tree. The numbers
> on the left is the patch count, and the number on the right is the
> number of openbmc kernel tree rebases the patch has survived. Note
> that three or more rebases should be considered bad, and should have
> someone assigned to help move the code upstream.
>
> $ git log v5.1..dev-5.1 | grep OpenBMC-Staging | sort | uniq -c
>
>       3     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 1
>      46     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 2
>
> These commits include the fixes recently made to the aspeed-video
> driver, device tree updates, and config changes.
>
>      27     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 3
>
> There are two main components here:
>
>  * PECI. Jae said that he is re-working the series to use configs, so
> there is some more work to do before submitting upstream.
>
>  * nuvoton drivers: I haven't had an update from our Nuvoton team.
> There are the ethernet mac, i2c, pci mailbox, bios post code and
> spi-nor drivers.
>
>       2     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 4
>       3     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 5
>      10     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 6
>      11     OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 7
>
> These patches are quite old. They include:
>
>  *  maxim fan controller: this driver has some hacks to work around
> bad i2c behavior, as well as some device tree bindings that were not
> accepted upstream. Andrew J has plans to work on this.
>
>  * aspeed spi-nor driver: upstream has asked us to re-write using the
> spi-mem framework. Cedric plans to work on this when he has time.
>
>  * DPS310 temp sensor: this driver needed pressure sensor support
> before upstream would take it. Eddie is working on that now, with v1
> on the lists.
>
>  * aspeed mbox: the openpower machines have stopped using this device.
> We will drop the driver from the tree in the 5.2 timeframe
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joel