[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/lego_ev3: bump kernel to 4.4 series
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Oct 15 20:59:28 UTC 2016
Hello,
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:51:55 +0200, Vincent Stehle wrote:
> From: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle at laposte.net>
>
> Bump kernel revision used by lego_ev3_defconfig to the latest tag from
> ev3dev, as suggested by Peter. This is a 4.4 series kernel, which has the
> added benefit of not necessitating a specific gcc to boot.
>
> We need a patch to create an empty drivers/lego/Kconfig file for the build
> to succeed though, as the ev3dev kernel normally expects a drivers tree to
> be checked out there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle at laposte.net>
> Suggested-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
I've applied your patch to master, thanks!
One comment below, though.
> Prepare your SDcard
> ===================
>
> The following µSD card layout is recommended:
>
> -- First partition formated with a FAT filesystem, containing the uImage.
> +- First partition formatted with a FAT filesystem, containing the uImage.
> - Second partition formatted as ext2 or ext3, containing the root filesystem.
>
> Create the SDcard partition table
It would be nice to use genimage here to automatically create a
complete SD card image.
Thanks,
Thomas
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