On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:36:26AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
Will we ever get a "vanilla" setup for 4.4 kernels on a non-x86 system? And given the past failures of tests on arm64 only, it's not that good of a comparison benchmark :)
There's plenty of ARM boards that work well upstream for older kernels (even way earlier than v4.4) but unfortunately there was an insistance from the Android point of view on using HiKey as the lead board since it's a public board that's in AOSP.
I understand that the x15 that's currently being added to LKFT is supposed to be fine on v4.4 and will give 32 bit coverage, I've also been asking for Juno which would give arm64 coverage there (it's what the kernel team at Linaro mostly use internally for LTS stuff), it's on the list for the team but I'm not sure when they're planning to add it. The Dragonboard 410c will run vanilla v4.4 as well, I think that's on the list too.
How about for 4.9? 4.14?
HiKey finally got things mostly working upstream in v4.9 so that should be fine, John Stultz and the rest of the Android team at Linaro put a lot of effort into that.