Research 5.5 kernel final

[sgjava]

I noticed that on the Duo I can select 5.5.0-rc6-sunxi in dev. Is there any idea when 5.5.0 will be the default release? Also, I noticed that there's no matching 5.5.x kernel source. I'm playing with linux-headers-dev-sunxi to see if I can compile libgpiod master which requires 5.5.0.

[Werner]

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Is there any idea when 5.5.0 will be the default release?

 

Default probably never since it is not a LTS kernel release.

Anyway. The sources for sunxi/64 dev are pulled from megous most of the time: https://github.com/megous/linux/blob/orange-pi-5.5/Makefile

If you build your own kernel package using the build script you will get a 5.5.0 package without RC since the sources are pushed to release already. You will get a matching headers and source package this way as well.

 

Pre-made packages from apt should get rebuilt when the next minor version bump occurs.

[sgjava]

OK, that's good to know.

[guidol]

On 1/31/2020 at 7:51 AM, Werner said:

If you build your own kernel package using the build script you will get a 5.5.0 package without RC since the sources are pushed to release already. You will get a matching headers and source package this way as well.

Thanks for the Info
 

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Welcome to Armbian Buster with Linux 5.5.0-sunxi64

package bsp-kernel[19.11.9] u-boot[19.11.9] dtb[19.11.9] firmware[19.11.9] config[19.11.9]
branch[dev]

 

[sgjava]

So 5.5.0 finally showed up in dev on 1/25.

uname -a
Linux nanopiduo 5.5.0-sunxi #trunk.034 SMP Mon Feb 3 08:38:40 CET 2020 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Saves me from building kernel. libgpiod master now builds for me!

[martinayotte]

1 hour ago, sgjava said:

So 5.5.0 finally showed up in dev on 1/25.

For Allwinner sunxi-dev, the switch occurs on Dec 27th, but it stays with -rcX release candidates for almost 4 more weeks ...

https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/17439c1f27727bc82a0df5e76b1b26cecb6ac8a3

[sgjava]

@martinayotte There were rc, but no 5.5.0-sunxi until I pulled down latest duo distro. Could have sneaked up on me