Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:57:23 -0800 | Subject | Re: ARM Linux Kernel Update | From | Satay Epic <> |
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Thanks Arnd. I will try it out.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2015 22:43:53 Albino B Neto wrote: >> 2015-11-12 21:46 GMT-02:00 Satay Epic <satayepic@gmail.com>: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I've an ARM SL3516 board with Linux 2.6.15 and I've tool-chain setup. >> > I could able to compile the GPL source. This board has red-boot. >> > >> > I would like to update the kernel to 3.8.24. My first attempt so not >> > sure about anything I should know, gotchas etc. >> > >> > Any advice about the compilation , config will be appreciated. > > 3.8.24 is also really old already, try going to 4.1 or 4.3 right away, > and submit any patches that you might need for integration into > mainline Linux once you are done. > > See http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini;h=b74c3d8f0100e2ac8a4d71c4d23c082db2993e63;hb=HEAD > > for a tree that has some of the missing parts for gemini, including a > config and some drivers that might be helpful. This is based on 4.1 > and should be easy enough to forward-port to 4.3 if you want. > >> > I tried using the existing ".config" but not sure some SL3512 >> > specific options would work? > > Start with the config-4.1 file from openwrt. > >> > Looking at the distribution, I don't see the "mach-sl2312" listed. >> > Can you just copy it from the old distribution and does it work this >> > way? >> > >> > There is this "mach-gemini" but it seems only for some W boards. > > mach-gemini is what you want. > > Arnd
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