Linux kernel updates and v6.0

[Joel Stanley]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 at 00:08, Tao Ren <rentao.bupt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> Finally I added v6.0 to Meta/Facebook OpenBMC repository. Instead of
> making a copy of dev-6.0 (like what I did before), I create a recipe to
> fetch kernel from your repository directly this time. In other word, we
> are sharing the same kernel tree now.

That's great news. Congrats to you and your team for getting all of
your changes into the tree.

> Thanks again for maintaining the tree, and it is very helpful. BTW, I
> may ask your help to backport some upstream patches in the future :)

Thank you for the kind feedback.

Cheers,

Joel

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tao
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 06:34:53AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > Hello OpenBMC,
> >
> > We've been using the v5.15 kernel as a base for almost 11 months. In
> > that time there's been 16 bumps to pull in stable fixes. We have
> > merged about 300 patches in that time to support new machines, and new
> > hardware, including MCTP, nct6775, lm25066, aspeed-adc and aspeed's
> > spi-nor devices.
> >
> > It's time to move to a new base to ensure progress is made on our
> > mission to upstream all of the support. By rebasing on a new kernel
> > release we can see what work has been done, and what remains. Since
> > v5.15 we have upstream support for:
> >
> >  - PECI, thanks to Jae and Iwona
> >  - MCTP, thanks to Jermey and Matt
> >  - spi-nor, thanks to Cédric
> >  - nct6775 i2c and lm25066, thanks to Zev
> >  - ast2600 adc, thanks to Billy
> >  - ast2600 gfx, thanks to Tommy
> >
> > and others I have missed.
> >
> > In addition to the ASPEED changes the Nuvton hackers have been hard at
> > work. We now have support for their latest generation  Cortex-A35 BMC,
> > the npcm845 "Arbel" and it's eval board. Likewise the HPE "GXP"
> > Cortex-A9 ASIC now has upstream support. Congratulations to both teams
> > for this work.
> >
> > I have prepared a v6.0 tree that contains backports of the FSI and
> > Aspeed v6.1 patches, and a small set of existing patches. I will
> > publish this on Monday, or once v6.0 final has been tagged.
> >
> > As promised the last time we rebased, the Nuvoton patches that have
> > not seen any updates since they were merged in 2019 have been dropped.
> > They are welcome to be resubmitted as long as they are also being
> > worked on upstream.
> >
> > Please address any future patches to the dev-6.0 tree.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joel