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

Luca Ceresoli luca at lucaceresoli.net
Wed Sep 24 14:29:14 UTC 2014


Dear Thomas,

Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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.

Didn't you hate those vendor kernels? ;-)

Well, seems there's a common direction here, so I'll resurrect my other
patches and send them.

-- 
Luca



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