From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-GM-THRID: 6699232146095079424 X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:3594:: with SMTP id o20mr12112125ejb.73.1559920579541; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:16:19 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: isar-users@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:a05:6402:185a:: with SMTP id v26ls2646748edy.8.gmail; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:16:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyrKbT81mTpV5L6kkEoJe8UxFsZZVt0G9/U/2AoJAaafZJbgJikPwG430U7Vfsj4O8yvFsv X-Received: by 2002:a50:987a:: with SMTP id h55mr17188046edb.108.1559920579016; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:16:19 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1559920579; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=PrXrmSW1F7AfubpA1nfLsy7dBEB5KAPEaKnvDw3TEyhmg9bE2IXEAmNHU+K+ge6gQ3 /SOZSXlxmhTvG3xUPcReurRiwPzWNrrMaJTsNUhXCN2m3f5uiU3nCl/BF651QUEA8JUJ E0nCQ7T5YLdX0poAPRuo6WkzTGPOO3Eqx/0GzRWIvD+TQAuRdQk6GFu+aoVImVilNhtq 67+jXqKw8RvTK3cOjDZM9vaTIb632fN0eY5ToLmlGuORmoM0kVlop+IrNau20SWUed8K ZcjKHFJp+2OAUEg3RtqUo9Oo8xI6JXobUQQC+ASrHzYv3OU5fAkXlQuYOmtVPSbcuU5/ dgNg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:organization:references :in-reply-to:date:cc:to:from:subject:message-id; bh=VDmjXH+/9XtYq1HS2c2mrOjL6nQEE8ZKw+ujMDF16+E=; b=RieDG7/fyqy1VsHp5ubTrham1ftM9BeNpZRa/Tqu3nfi85AajCkWJF2QpHleQ8RZht a18tQW12KMm2Lbc0zCmqiEBRkgU14itEytyQwUabktIQOBjJpJd4JGHv8AfLV/+Nj398 6aiUqIyc7kSO/oDwxWCwRuh8+WF2/wXshGKIyuGF9Nno2UnIWxo1SzIwIr8XIq17KNg7 Pc30yf9S87HhZo2+y9UbgRpj6XNHUAM4PCDnJeQwsafUppL0J/S1b3/sencgW2elcGzj UyjK4m8Y43LEy9P8NsrgsTjLaQUdlODKErG51Z12uoOOYhRaK88ioMUvGWGP83xTjpDz VKRw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk designates 176.9.8.82 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=codethink.co.uk Return-Path: Received: from imap1.codethink.co.uk (imap1.codethink.co.uk. [176.9.8.82]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x27si157165edd.3.2019.06.07.08.16.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk designates 176.9.8.82 as permitted sender) client-ip=176.9.8.82; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk designates 176.9.8.82 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=codethink.co.uk Received: from [167.98.27.226] (helo=xylophone) by imap1.codethink.co.uk with esmtpsa (Exim 4.84_2 #1 (Debian)) id 1hZGbD-0000AP-Al; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:16:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1559920570.21054.7.camel@codethink.co.uk> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] [next] iwg20m: add support for this board From: Ben Hutchings To: Chris Paterson , Daniel Sangorrin , "jan.kiszka@siemens.com" Cc: "isar-users@googlegroups.com" , "cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org" Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:16:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <20190606074829.8104-1-daniel.sangorrin@toshiba.co.jp> <20190606074829.8104-2-daniel.sangorrin@toshiba.co.jp> <1559918469.21054.3.camel@codethink.co.uk> Organization: Codethink Ltd. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1+deb9u1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TUID: tTsm1ZOm2F3S On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 15:06 +0000, Chris Paterson wrote: > Hello, > > > From: cip-dev-bounces@lists.cip-project.org > project.org> On Behalf Of Ben Hutchings > > Sent: 07 June 2019 15:41 > > > > On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 16:48 +0900, Daniel Sangorrin wrote: > > > This patch adds support for the iwg20m board to isar-cip-core. > > > > > > - Kernel version notes > > > > > > This board is only supported by the 4.4 kernel. For that > > > reason, the preferred version is set to 4.4 and the user > > > doesn't need to specify :opt-4.4.yml > > > > [...] > > > > This really shouldn't be allowed to happen.  All the patches applied to > > 4.4-cip to support this board were already upstream, so this must be a > > regression.  If this board is used as a basis for real systems that > > need to run beyond EOL of the 4.4-cip branch (~2026), it needs to be > > possible to upgrade them to a new kernel version at that time. > > Actually, the iwg20m board does work with the upstream Kernel as well > as v4.19.y-cip, e.g. [1]. Oh, good. > I think it's just that Renesas doesn't intend to support the board > with anything other than v4.4.y-cip. I understand the desire to limit the support burden. But I hope that there is a plan to support a newer kernel version eventually, if necessary. Ben. > [1] https://lava.ciplatform.org/scheduler/job/1219 > > Kind regards, Chris -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer   Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom