From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QUf5z-0002mT-7K for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:16:23 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUf2n-00065R-HT for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:05 +0200 Received: from ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl ([84.80.112.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:05 +0200 Received: from koen by ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:13:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:12:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4DF0C472.4030608@dresearch-fe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip545070eb.adsl-surfen.hetnet.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101127 Shredder/3.0.11pre In-Reply-To: <4DF0C472.4030608@dresearch-fe.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 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 13:16:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09-06-11 15:02, 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, Ehm, 2008.1 is not deprecated, it's still fully supported in the 2011.03 maintenance branch. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFN8MbPMkyGM64RGpERAgF7AKCGjnsrW63s4rBTAH/ZUVzFAGbRWACeM/Kc Bc88jtYjU/yuLsJ3Knh9KLc= =gpMW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----