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Add Linux 5.4.5 #1554

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@pmenzel pmenzel commented Dec 19, 2019

Linux 5.4 is a longterm series, so add it properly to MarIuX with the proprietary Nvidia driver 440.40 installed.

Tested on sigusr2.

Linux 5.4 is a longterm series.

> 5.4 	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin 	2019-11-24 	Dec, 2021

Create the bee file with the commands below.

    $ git checkout 77f42bc -- linux-5.4-302.bee
    $ git mv linux-5.4-302.bee linux-5.4.4-305.bee
> LZ4 is an LZ77-type compressor with a fixed, byte-oriented encoding.
> A preliminary version of LZ4 de/compression tool is available at
> <https://code.google.com/p/lz4/>.
>
> Its compression ratio is worse than LZO. The size of the kernel
> is about 8% bigger than LZO. But the decompression speed is
> faster than LZO.
> This option selects CONFIG_HMM and CONFIG_HMM_MIRROR if it
> isn't already selected to enabled full userptr support.
> Say Y if you want support for a simple frame-buffer.
>
> This driver assumes that the display hardware has been initialized
> before the kernel boots, and the kernel will simply render to the
> pre-allocated frame buffer surface.
>
> Configuration re: surface address, size, and format must be provided
> through device tree, or plain old platform data
Add the latest [Long Lived Branch Version 440.44][1] to be able to build
against Linux 5.4.

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
@donald donald merged commit fe2bd8e into master Dec 20, 2019
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pmenzel commented Dec 20, 2019

Tested on amaru. No image with Linux 4.19.57 (connected over DP to VGA adapter over KVM in the work shop), but image with 5.4.5.

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