Hi Jim, Would it be possible, that you take a look at my questions form the previous email? Thanks in advance, Marcin śr., 1 sie 2018 o 17:11 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a): > > Hi Jim, > > wt., 31 lip 2018 o 18:09 Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> napisał(a): > > > > > > > > On 07/30/2018 07:00 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > > > It's been a while, since I sent the patch. Any objections about merging? > > > > > > Is v4.11 kernel still a valid baseline or for the next releases or we > > > should use v4.14? When is that transition and next release supposed to > > > happen? > > > > > > > The current version of the supported kernel is 4.14, so this would need > > to be updated to support the 4.14 tree. > > > > There is still a gap between vanilla v4.14 version of the driver and > the upstream commits that allow to use it with ACPI (although much > smaller than for v4.11). What is a procedure of providing you the > patches? > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Marcinsob., 23 cze 2018 o 08:18 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a): > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I'm sending a patch that is applicable on top of the kernel > > >> sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch. It enables ACPI support for the Marvell > > >> Armada7k8k NIC - this required backporting very big amount of patches > > >> (all merged upstream), hence I decided to attach the single commit, > > >> instead of issueing 'git send-email' of it. > > >> > > > > > > Once we got to 4.14, there didn't seem to be a demand for the > > sig-altarch kernel to continue so I left it at the previous version. > > From the sounds of things, you still need it for this to work? > > Is v4.14-based Centos an official version to support aarch64? If yes, > I'd complement this version with the needed patches. > > Btw. if I google 'Centos aarch64' the links point to the altarch/7 > images. What is their kernel base then? In other words, where should > one search > for most recent image of aarch64 images? Is there any public release > schedule available? > > About sig-altarch tree, I'd need to make sure internally. From your > perspective, would it be recommended? > > > > > >> Despite many attempts I wasn't able to build entire rpm package with > > >> the mock build utility, however I managed to test the clean kernel > > >> v4.11 with applied all patches and built with updated .config. Please > > >> let know if this patch is sufficient and can be merged. > > > > I'm guessing no unless it patches/builds against 4.14 as well. I'll see > > about updating the sig-altarch tree so that we can test there. > > > > For sure I need to send updated patch list for v4.14. Please see my > question above. > > Thanks, > Marcin