-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/17/2011 12:25 PM, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Dear wonderous Kernel plumbers,
I'm not sure if anyone is following the -arm mailing list/effort, so in case no-one is I was wondering if someone would kindly advise on what is needed to get a suitable kernel-default to support ARM. Please see below for my original e-mail to the -arm ml.
Welcome to the joy of supporting ARM. The big issue is that there is no "default" ARM kernel. There are many machine types that must be configured separately. There is a big effort to unify the machine types as has already happened in x86, and (I believe) powerpc. That hasn't produced any solid results yet, though. So, for now, you're going to need to produce configs for the hardware you want to target. The good news is that all you'll need to do is create the configs, name the packages, and link to kernel-source. That's how all the other kernels are built now. Well, there's another step to get the right package description, but I don't know what it is off the top of my head. - -Jeff
Thanks,
Andy
-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Andrew Wafaa
To: openSUSE ARM ML Subject: Getting the correct kernel Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:05:26 +0100 I know one of the reasons we chose a single target for hardware was to make the job of getting the right kernel and associated modules somewhat easier.
Now (un)fortunately, we have some kind sponsors of hardware Genesi with the Efika MX and Pandaboard.org with the PandaBoard. How difficult would it be to have a single kernel that supports both these devices? I've had a sniff on the web and have found a kernel repo for EfikaMX[0] and PandaBoard[1], there is also the Linaro kernel[2] which I believe supports them; nice to have would be the BeagleBoard too.
I believe they should all be supported in upstream but I can't say for certain, saying that though I believe the EfikaMX needs the siihdmi driver pushing upstream for the 3.x kernel. I have a contact to push about this and will chase him up later today.
Regards,
Andy
0=http://gitorious.org/efikamx/linux-kernel 1=http://gitorious.org/pandaboard/kernel-mainline 2=http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-3.1.git;a=summary
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