On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:30 PM Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed 2020-08-05 20:50:43, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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Hi Pavel,

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:26 PM Pavel Machek [off-list ref] wrote:

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I have submitted the below as a topic for the linux/arch/* MC that Mike
and I run, but I suppose it also makes sense to discuss it on the
ksummit-discuss mailing list (cross-posted to linux-arch and lkml) as well
even if we don't discuss it at the main ksummit track.

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* Latest kernel in which it was known to have worked

For some old hardware, I started collecting kernel version, .config and dmesg from
successful boots. github.com/pavelmachek, click on "missy".

You mean your complete hardware collection doesn't boot v5.8? ;-)

I need to do some pushing, and yes, maybe some more testing.

But I was wondering if someone sees this as useful and wants to
contribute more devices? :-).

There's in my opinion a big difference between "the last user of this
device sent it to Pavel and now it will be supported forever in spite
of no users" and "there's a whole group of people using mainline on
these old devices and Pavel makes sure it keeps booting for them".


-Olof