On Monday 16 September 2019 17:39:21 Steven Rostedt wrote: > Dear RT Folks, > > I'm pleased to announce the 4.19.72-rt25 stable release. > > **** <NOTE> **** > > As you probably have noticed, it has been a long time since I released > a stable 4.19-rt. The reason for this delay is that one of my tests > failed after merging with the latest stable upstream. I refuse to push > releases with a known bug in it, so I figured I would find the bug > before releasing. I only spend around 4 to 6 hours a week on upstream > stable RT as I have other responsibilities, and I could not debug this > bug during that time (after several weeks of trying). > > The bug is a random NULL pointer dereference that only happens with > lockdep enabled and on 32bit x86. I also found that this bug existed > before the latest stable pull release but now it is much easier to > trigger. > > I have not been able to trigger this bug in the 64 bit kernel, and as > I rather do a release than waste more time on this bug and postpone > the release further, I am now doing that. As a consequence, I am no > longer supporting 32bit x86, as it is known to have this bug. > > If you are interested in this, I am willing to send out the config I > am using and one of the dmesg crashes. Just ask. > > **** </NOTE> **** > > > This release is just an update to the new stable 4.19.72 version > and no RT specific changes have been made. > > > You can get this release via the git tree at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git > > branch: v4.19-rt > Head SHA1: 9cd04ab6a9a162ac4189a80032261d243563ff45 > ===================================================================== > Or to build 4.19.72-rt25 directly, the following patches should be > applied: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.19.tar.xz > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/patch-4.19.72.xz > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.19/patch-4.19.72- >rt25.patch.xz > Unfortunately, this does not work for the pi3-4 family. When its all pulled in and patched, there is no arch/arm/configs bcm2709_defconfig or bcm2711_defconfig for either a pi3b or the new pi4b. I'll go find the 5.2.14 announce and see if its any more complete. > > > > Enjoy, > > -- Steve Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
