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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:13 PM Mittal, Anuj <anuj.mittal at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 08:27 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thank you Bruce. I meant that this kernel-devsrc fix should be merged
> in yocto stable branch, warrior, regardless of the 4.19 kernel version
> there.

Aha. gotcha. I'll send it along to -stable once we've sorted out the
current set of issues.

Bruce

>
> Thanks,
>
> Anuj



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