Kernel development for Yakkety

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/02/2016 06:10 PM, Dann Frazier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I've been working on getting some semblance of a Yakkety kernel working. You
>> can follow along by watching
>> 'git://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable
>> master'. Beware, some days this branch gets massively rebased as often as
>> several times in an hour (especially on Mondays when the rc's are released).
>>
>> There are currently PIE related toolchain issues in Yakkety, so I've
>> continued to build using the Xenial toolchain.
>>
>> The initial rebase from Xenial had some patch fallout:
>>
>> Seth - Could you have a look at these patches. I assume they are still
>> necessary.
>>
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: Add support for unprivileged mounts from user
>> namespaces
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: ext4: Add module parameter to enable user namespace mounts
>>
>> You should also have a look at this backport to ensure that I did it
>> correctly:
>>
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: cgroup: Use a new super block when mounting in a cgroup
>> namespace
>>
>> Dann - arm EFI has been completely re-factored. This patch (though
>> relatively simple) may no longer be necessary:
>>
>> UBUNTU: SAUCE: (noup) efi: ARM/arm64: ignore DT memory nodes instead of
>> removing them
>
> Thanks Tim. This is staged in linux-next for 4.7 along with the rest
> of the arm64/dt NUMA patches. +1 dropping it (and the series) from y
> for now. I can follow up with proper cherry-picks after the merge
> window opens.
>
>    -dann
>

I also dropped these 2 patches for FTBS:

UBUNTU: SAUCE: (noup) arm64, numa: Add NUMA support for arm64 platforms.
UBUNTU: SAUCE: (noup) arm64: Move unflatten_device_tree() call earlier.

Hopefully we'll get their reincarnations in 4.7 or 4.8.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com