[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] kernel-devsrc: tweak for v5.3+

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 5:17 AM Mittal, Anuj <anuj.mittal at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 11:31 -0400, bruce.ashfield at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> >
> > The 5.3 kernel has two changes that require tweaks to the minimal
> > kernel-devsrc package.
> >
> > - 4ce97317f [x86/purgatory: Do not use __builtin_memcpy and
> > __builtin_memset]
> >
> >   This change removes the need for arch/x86/purgatory/string.c and
> >   instead reuses a copy in arch/x86/boot/compressed/, so we can't
> > copy
> >   the file anymore. To support older kernels, we make the copy
> > survive
> >   the non-existence of the file.
> >
>
> This change was merged in 4.19 stable kernel as well. Can this be
> merged in our stable branches as well please?

It already is (just not pushed), I just wasn't doing -stable updates
along with 5.2 intro .. there's only so many things I can debug and
regression test at one time. Hopefully I'll get through the 5.2 work
soon and finish the rest of my queue.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-4.19.y&id=e0d262a57fc741a9b362e458c714e37a77ddb62d
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anuj



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