[amd-staging-drm-nex] Planned move to 5.4-rc6+ soon?

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 6:04 PM Dieter Nützel <Dieter at nuetzel-hh.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Alex,
>
> like AMD...;-)
>
> [Why]
> 5.3-rcX (-rc3)
> - has broken (regressed) block layer (CD/DVD, games...) - fixed in 5.3
> final
> - ACPI (power management) regression - fixed in 5.3 final
> - USB 3.1/3.2 regression (5.000 vs 10.000 Mbit/s mode, in use heavily
> here)
>     even with AMD's partner ASMedia (ASM 2142+ chips) - fixed in 5.4-rc
> (!!!)
> - Navi problems (e.g. SDMA) some progress/mitigation with 5.4-rc
>
> [How]
> Switch to 5.4-rc4 (or better -rc6) as soon as possible
>

It's based on Dave's drm-next tree so it moves forward as that tree
moves forward.  From the driver's perspective, it has all the driver
patches so there is nothing missing from that branch relative to 5.4.
If you want an updated base kernel tree use my drm-next branch.

Alex