Just to be clear, for my own part I was only asking if this kernel version upgrade was something we should have done already.
The only issues I currently have with my Orange Pi 5 Plus after months of otherwise perfectly stable use on DietPi is that
- it rarely (like every 15th time) on reboot gets confused which network port is the first or second even with this DietPi is using an out-of-date u-boot that doesn't set a fixed MAC address on Quartz64A - #34 by KaKi87 workaround but just connecting a keyboard and pressing control+alt+delete to reboot statistically extremely probably has it come back up with a correct network ports assignment and my workaround for now is to just have both ports populated with cables so that it does not matter anyway
- very rarely (like every 30th time) does not reboot when it’s told to but just stands frozen between apparently having left the kernel and the next bootup so one must pull the power cable out to replug it in and finally that,
- it only seems to reach about 500Mb/s wired network speed on a 1Gb/s Internet connection.
For my own use (normally SSH-access only, no desktop, runs dockerized services like Nextcloud, Navidrome, Jellyfin and Tor obfs4-bridge) I would not be inclined to venture into something that would be known likely to make any of this functionality worse or break it.
Others might be interested in experiments though and I too would of course be very thankful to anyone that thusly contributes to some future stable upgraded kernel for this device, but that was not the purpose of my starting this thread.