Codethink: report weeks 6 and 7

Hi,

this is a summary of the CIP related work we've done the last couple of weeks:

## Kernel maintenance

* Reviewed patches from Renesas to add support for SMP and I?C masters on R8A7743 SoC, and applied them to the CIP kernel branch

* Reviewed Robert's merge request for B at D

* Discussed opportunities for CIP member participation at DebConf

* Reviewed the changes in stable release 4.4.113 (but didn't yet merge them)

## CIP testing

* Went through the open tickets and sent to backlog all those that are related with B at D development.
** Confirmed #157 is still an issue: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/157
** Unable to replicate #170 so far: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/170

* Working on #173 opened by Zoran: https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/
testing/issues/173

* B at D working with new kernelci version. Consolidation required. ** Latest kernel tested and report by e-mail sent to mailing list.

* Relaxed permissions in /etc/linaro to adapt them to B at D use case #165:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/testing/issues/165

* Busybox updated to a newer version.

## Others

* Updated milestones in the CIP testing project to adapt them to the new maintenance mode.

* Although our participation was approved, in the last minute a collision in my schedule prevent me from attending to OpenExpo in Madrid. No one else can so I communicated to the organization we cannot attend.

* Open question: should we send Gitlab notifications to the mailing list?

As usual you can fin more accurate info about our work by reading the journal:
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting/
journal

Best Regards

Agust?n Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant
Codethink Ltd