[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] configs/beaglebone: use the new BeagleBoard/BeagleBone kernel repository

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:11:14 -0300
Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I've applied to next... but after doing, I realized that you could have
> > used the github macro, like we do in beagleboneai_defconfig. Could you
> > send a patch for that ?  
> 
> I kept using git download method but I can replace it by the download
> or the tarbal from GitHub.

Yes, it's nicer to use the github macro, it saves a lot of download time.

> > Also, it would be nice if we could align beagleboneai, beaglebone and
> > beaglebone_qt5 to use the same U-Boot/Linux versions, if possible. I
> > see that the beagleboneai is using 4.14 even though it's a much newer
> > platform than beaglebone.  
> 
> I have been working on it but did not have much free time in the last
> weeks. I will try to fix it on time for 2019.11.

Sure, no problem. That was really a "nice to have" comment. Thanks!

Thomas
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