[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] freescale/imx6-sabresd: use up-to-date mainline Linux

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 24 13:48:31 UTC 2014


Dear Vincent Stehlé,

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:38:35 +0200, Vincent Stehlé wrote:

> I am not sure if abandoning the Freescale release kernel is the best
> option for i.MX6. Indeed, if you want e.g. proper video
> (package/freescale-imx/imx-vpu) and 3D
> (package/freescale-imx/gpu-viv-bin-mx6q) support to still work as
> expected you need to stay with the 3.10.17.
> 
> Wouldn't you prefer to align the headers instead?

Yes, I agree. For such platforms, it makes more sense to use the vendor
kernel version.

Thomas
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