From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-fx0-f47.google.com ([209.85.161.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QUew0-0002an-DA for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:06:05 +0200 Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so1096850fxm.6 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.28.19 with SMTP id k19mr749091fac.139.1307624564727; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fensuse.internal.dresearch-fe.de (pd95cb174.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.177.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q10sm648731fan.32.2011.06.09.06.02.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF0C472.4030608@dresearch-fe.de> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:02:42 +0200 From: Steffen Sledz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel Subject: Distros supporting older kernels? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:06:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Distro Maintainers, as you could read in earlier messages of mine, we're forced to use an older kernel version (2.6.24) for our hardware. This brings a lot of problems as you can imagine (e.g. we're also bound to udev-141). Until now we've used angstrom-2008.1 with some own patches according to the linux-libc-headers and udev versions for our hardware which were reasonably not accepted by the Angstrom maintainers (see discussions [1] or [2]). In there current situation (angstrom-2008.1 is deprecated, the new layer concept will come up) we're looking for a new, better, less hacky solution. My first question therefor is if there are any distros explicitely supporting older kernels (pre 2.6.27) yet? Or are willing to work on it? [1] [2] Thx, Steffen PS: Does anybody know a good overview which Linux Kernel API changes were made in which kernel version? -- DResearch Fahrzeugelektronik GmbH Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, 10319 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 515932-237 mailto:sledz@dresearch-fe.de Fax: +49 30 515932-299 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Weber, Werner Mögle; Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg; HRB 130120 B; Ust.-IDNr. DE273952058