Details are extracted from T565 which requested support for newer Intel NICs.
Looking into this I see 47 non merge commits which are not in the mainline Kernel:
(19:28) cpo lnx01:~/vyos-build/packages/vyos-kernel [linux-vyos-4.14.y] # git log --pretty=oneline origin/current...v4.4.113 | grep -v Merge | wc -l 47
Looking through all changes I come up with the following:
cfg: change to the current VyOS Kernel configuration, simply pick the latest and add a proper Git reference
no: we don't have to take care about this commit b/c it's fixed in the mentioned upstream version/commit
cfgold: Old kernel configuration files should be dropped (see Q121)
debian: commits related to the debian folder for kernel builds ... more investigation needed by mysqlf
vyatta: Patches added for Vyatta - I will forward port them as I think they are required!
cfg 08fbb692685304a T536: Enable 9P Virtio Kernel Modules cfg 0456e0acdcc5b95 T452: Enable support for 5 GHz WiFi AccesPoints w/ DFS cfg b72a65de9fd1c68 add UDF support cfg 5fb76d1e94c254a T389: enable virtio SCSI drivers cfg 14cc3866ddd730e add virtio scsi to kernel as loadable module cfg 41e50c5566ecd0c remove Automatically generated lines cfg 26bdeb800ea616f Enable intel QuickAssist Technology modules no 31097c58bc2674b dccp: fix freeing skb too early for IPV6_RECVPKTINFO (upstream 4.10 5edabca9d4cff7f1f2b68f0bac55ef99d9798ba4) no 3cca9b0e560fed8 virtio_net: validate ethtool port setting and explain the user validation (upstream 4.6 0cf3ace9e7cb47e3173561a8fb2601a12d8f75d2) no efdfde3539078a7 ethtool: make validate_speed accept all speeds between 0 and INT_MAX (upstream 4.6 e02564ee334a7ae46b71fc18576391cb9455433e) no 2bf525732c8ede1 virtio_net: add ethtool support for set and get of settings (upstream 4.6 16032be56c1f66770da15cb94f0eb366c37aff6e) no 5f9e299fd09ac96 ethtool: add speed/duplex validation functions (upstream 4.6 103a8ad1fa3b261c78dfc842cb315defe9d40be0) cfg c648059744eb0c6 add vyos x86_64 defconfig cfgold 4e42f195f18c4c8 Update kernel config vyatta 4c8de1009e13a97 Update name of struct to prevent conficts. (change to e59dab9f2985869) cfgold 9aaaf3fbc44b91e Enable Chacha20 and Poly1305 kernel crypto modules cfgold 3580d42e44a462c Build the XHCI module into the kernel. This allows VyOS to boot from USB on very modern Intel chipsets. debian 8654501441de3ac vyos-kernel: update dh_gencontrol with new development build flag cfgold 2af70d3624d9318 Enable missing network drivers. cfgold b8ed510ed8bc585 vyos-kernel: enable EFI stub to allow booting without separate bootloader cfgold 6b15c639be2b693 vyos-kernel: enable inotify support for stackable filesystems in config triage 25e20e822c340c6 vyos-kernel: add inotify support for stackable filesystems (overlayfs) (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/882147) cfgold 6033764bb40b089 vyos-kernel: enable IPv6 VTI kernel module for 586-vyos kernel version debian 653e17a2f1e2320 Update maintainer address cfgold 864a1d1289a7e3c vyos-kernel: enable VXLAN kernel module for 586-vyos kernel version cfgold ea8fa4b3234c8c2 vyos-kernel: disable kernel debugging for all configs cfgold 9f05d9afde79c7f vyos-kernel: disable host virtualisation in the 586-vyos-virt config cfgold fbb2b9a90810739 vyos-kernel: enable kernel stack overflow protection for all configs cfgold 0f29c17c2914e13 vyos-kernel: enable realtek rtl8723ae kernel modules for all configs cfgold ec66a9fb85eaf27 * Enabled stack overflow protection (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) cfgold af9021cbdce1bab * Enabled RTL8723AE wifi drivers (CONFIG_RTL8723AE) cfgold cabcb55d564c357 * Disabled kernel debugging (CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL), since nobody develops drivers using a production config cfgold 4539c8be3296d33 * Disabled Virtualization (CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION), since a router is not ment to be a kvm host cfgold 7457a26bd4664c9 Revert "* Enabled stack overflow protection (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR)" cfgold a94d0ce67be4ced * Enabled stack overflow protection (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) * Enabled RTL8723AE wifi drivers (CONFIG_RTL8723AE) * Disabled kernel debugging (CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL), since nobody develops drivers using a production config * Disabled Virtualization (CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION), since a router is not ment to be a kvm host cfgold 2a7ae970ac30385 vyos-kernel: update config files for the latest kernel (3.13.11) cfgold 728b2cbd6f0725a Enable built-in vmware modules instead of those from openvmtools. cfgold 41e0df2eec81c67 vyos-kernel: enable atheros USB drivers in the helium 3.13 kernel cfgold 602359068ee9f3a vyos-kernel: enable atheros HTC drivers in the helium 3.13 kernel cfgold 31aa6487cf6f262 vyos-kernel: enable atheros wireless drivers in the helium 3.13 kernel cfgold b48da5963f9a9b4 Add 586-virt flavor to defines. debian 3a5e4c7971082bc Bug #247 - VyOS helium Linux 3.13 kernel .config doesn't have vmxnet3 driver enabled/available And update virt config to include netfilter helper cfgold 66d4802f839e149 Add support for overlayfs in amd64 kernel config and enable Connection tracking helpers in user-space via Netlink in both amd64 and i386 kernel configs. vyatta e59dab9f2985869 tun: vyatta patches vyatta fc58d4a33953776 Add special macvlan mode for VRRP. vyatta e8b8c70f0e20666 Add linkstate IP device attribute debian 73e8c1fbb3e0e57 Add debian packaging from hydrogen with some modifications.
I start playing arroung and looking in a recent LTS kernel for all driver updates ...
There are only few modified files:
(20:01) cpo lnx01:~/vyos-build/packages/vyos-kernel [linux-vyos-4.14.y] # git diff origin/current v4.4.113 --name-only | grep -v debian Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt arch/x86/configs/x86_64_vyos_defconfig drivers/net/macvlan.c drivers/net/tun.c drivers/net/virtio_net.c fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c fs/overlayfs/super.c include/linux/inetdevice.h include/linux/inotify.h include/linux/ipv6.h include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h include/uapi/linux/if_link.h include/uapi/linux/if_tunnel.h include/uapi/linux/ip.h include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h net/ipv4/devinet.c net/ipv6/addrconf.c net/ipv6/route.c
The Kernel commit/patch fc58d4a33953776 is used by https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-keepalived/commit/8bd97620 and VyOS 1.2 is using vyos-keepalived which no longer needs this patch.
The Kernel commit/patch e8b8c70f0e20666 is used by https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-cfg-quagga/commit/5182559eeb9ffa7acde43561c9a331f5e5bdf09c
The Kernel commit/patch e59dab9f2985869 seems to be obsolete. No consumer found via https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=org%3Avyos+SIOCTUNNELSTATS&type=Code
If e59dab9f2985869 is obsolete, so is 4c8de1009e13a97