[00/14] kernel-yocto: consolidated pull request

From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>

Richard,

I've put all of the patches I've sent for 6.17 into this series. The
only new ones are a bump to 6.17.5 (Which also contains some configuration
changes to fix audit warnings for genericarm64) and t he addition of
genericarm64 SRCREVs to the 6.16 and 6.17 appends.

These are against master, I can rebase to master-next as needed (if
some of the older ones merged there that I didn't notice).

If this series works out, we'll remove 6.16 from the tree.

Cheers,

Bruce


The following changes since commit 77348b07ccd98689a15d6b1baf64471953fd557e:

  linux-firmware: drop catch-all QCA package (2025-10-30 11:06:28 +0000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib zedd/kernel
  https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib/log/?h=zedd/kernel

Bruce Ashfield (14):
  linux-yocto: introduce 6.17 reference kernels
  linux-yocto/6.17: update CVE exclusions (6.17.5)
  linux-yocto/6.17: fix qemuarm config audit warning
  linux-yocto/6.17: unify qemumips (malta) branches
  linux-yocto/6.17: fix rdinit boot warning
  linux-yocto/6.17: update to v6.17.6
  linux-yocto/6.17: update CVE exclusions (6.17.6)
  linux-yocto/6.12: update to v6.12.53
  linux-yocto/6.12: update CVE exclusions (6.12.53)
  linux-yocto/6.12: update to v6.12.55
  linux-yocto/6.12: update CVE exclusions (6.12.55)
  poky: make linux-yocto 6.17 the preferred version
  yocto-bsp/6.16: specify genericarm64 SRCREV
  yocto-bsp/6.17: introduce kernel bbappend

 meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf          |     2 +-
 meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf               |     4 +-
 .../linux/linux-yocto_6.16.bbappend           |     1 +
 .../linux/linux-yocto_6.17.bbappend           |    11 +
 .../linux/cve-exclusion_6.12.inc              |   258 +-
 .../linux/cve-exclusion_6.17.inc              | 17698 ++++++++++++++++
 .../linux/linux-yocto-rt_6.12.bb              |     6 +-
 .../linux/linux-yocto-rt_6.17.bb              |    48 +
 .../linux/linux-yocto-tiny_6.12.bb            |     6 +-
 .../linux/linux-yocto-tiny_6.17.bb            |    33 +
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.12.bb |    28 +-
 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.17.bb |    79 +
 12 files changed, 18146 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 meta-yocto-bsp/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.17.bbappend
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/cve-exclusion_6.17.inc
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-rt_6.17.bb
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-tiny_6.17.bb
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_6.17.bb

Hello, Bruce (and Richard)

I hope this email finds you well.

On 10/30/25 18:12, Bruce Ashfield via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> 
> Richard,
> 
> I've put all of the patches I've sent for 6.17 into this series. The
> only new ones are a bump to 6.17.5 (Which also contains some configuration
> changes to fix audit warnings for genericarm64) and t he addition of
> genericarm64 SRCREVs to the 6.16 and 6.17 appends.
> 
> These are against master, I can rebase to master-next as needed (if
> some of the older ones merged there that I didn't notice).
> 
> If this series works out, we'll remove 6.16 from the tree.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce

I spotted this ptest failure likely related to this update:
Failed ptests:
{'lttng-tools': 
["tests.serial_3_-_Test_script_'tools/channel/test_cli_legacy_channel_buffering_policies.py'_returned_code_1._4_passed,_0_failed,_0_skipped,_6_planned_[total:_4]", 
 
"tests.serial_6_-_Test_script_'tools/filtering/test_valid_filter[_0.000000]_Linux_version_6.17.6-yocto-standard"]}

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/2561/steps/13/logs/stdio
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/2520/steps/13/logs/stdio

Could you please take a look?

Have a nice weekend!

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM Joao Marcos Costa <
joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com> wrote:

> Hello, Bruce (and Richard)
>
> I hope this email finds you well.
>
> On 10/30/25 18:12, Bruce Ashfield via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > I've put all of the patches I've sent for 6.17 into this series. The
> > only new ones are a bump to 6.17.5 (Which also contains some
> configuration
> > changes to fix audit warnings for genericarm64) and t he addition of
> > genericarm64 SRCREVs to the 6.16 and 6.17 appends.
> >
> > These are against master, I can rebase to master-next as needed (if
> > some of the older ones merged there that I didn't notice).
> >
> > If this series works out, we'll remove 6.16 from the tree.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruce
>
> I spotted this ptest failure likely related to this update:
> Failed ptests:
> {'lttng-tools':
> ["tests.serial_3_-_Test_script_'tools/channel/test_cli_legacy_channel_buffering_policies.py'_returned_code_1._4_passed,_0_failed,_0_skipped,_6_planned_[total:_4]",
>
>
>
> "tests.serial_6_-_Test_script_'tools/filtering/test_valid_filter[_0.000000]_Linux_version_6.17.6-yocto-standard"]}
>
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/2561/steps/13/logs/stdio
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/2520/steps/13/logs/stdio
>
> Could you please take a look?
>
>
We are well over the pain threshold for this. I have no time over the
weekend to look at anything.

I'm abandoning the series, and we'll go with 6.16 for the release.  -dev
has 6.17 and 6.18 for those that want it, and I'll do the LTS kernel for
the spring release.

Bruce



> Have a nice weekend!
>
> --
> Best regards,
> João Marcos Costa
>