From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QUnzn-0006aN-4s for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:46:35 +0200 Received: by pwj9 with SMTP id 9so1022387pwj.6 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:43:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Iw7GIk/akYEvJ7QZo3GBKVk09Uypj0hwdrd1Gi741j8=; b=ZfSCbOb4CU6Q73N06q2Ps9h0DceGaqCI2o5VoaQSG++UUvOtjHw+Ya8b7tFoOT44SV GgBWfjaHigv8nNsSbpkg4neQYSncrVarypdXsW2w6lRSzrw4yxmx0dILeRk7yRbg9uuN yqmWbq/u7VjZoAbXCOVp4azejct/IXmJ4xc/8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YHqczQVnGaWWGz6CL3/q3OAPrE9ZmRU2s/GXOY51rDFXsS++lzNGFiZK0UU2SKp1K5 2g9AlwxwThTSXwgwN2B8uNmy/RiwnqUdGev1zJJbjC2BBJHbx/DTAjgcqK09pDz2qCVL AVEdwNZrBGGZRCuLLLE+8PaWsxRLzyU0xCFtg= Received: by 10.143.68.18 with SMTP id v18mr225633wfk.340.1307659394461; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.70] (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x8sm2164715wfx.19.2011.06.09.15.43.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF14C7E.7000701@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:43:10 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4DF0C472.4030608@dresearch-fe.de> In-Reply-To: <4DF0C472.4030608@dresearch-fe.de> Subject: Re: 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 22:46:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Steffen Sledz wrote: > 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? > I guess a machine layer on top of oe-core could be something you can work out and add/override needed recipes in this layer. > [1] > [2] > > Thx, > Steffen > > PS: Does anybody know a good overview which Linux Kernel API changes > were made in which kernel version? >