[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] raspberrypi2: switch Linux kernel to rpi-3.18.y

Frank Hunleth fhunleth at troodon-software.com
Fri May 1 10:20:28 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Frank Hunleth,
>
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:36:43 -0400, Frank Hunleth wrote:
>> This changes the kernel used on the Raspberry Pi 2 from the 3.19 branch
>> back to the 3.18 branch. This provides a couple of advantages:
>>
>>   1. mmc0 works again. Floris Bos found out that this was due to using
>>      the precompiled DTB files from rpi-firmware. These DTBs were built
>>      using 3.18.
>>   2. The rpi-3.18.y branch is not regularly rebased like rpi-3.19.y
>>      according to popcornmix. See
>>      https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/915.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth at troodon-software.com>
>> ---
>>  configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Applied both patches, thanks.
>
> What about the raspberrypi_defconfig ? Is there any reason to keep it
> around using the 3.12 kernel ? Or can we rename
> raspberrypi_dt_defconfig to raspberrypi_defconfig ?

I've never used raspberrypi_defconfig, so I would be in favor of this.

Regards,
Frank


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