From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:19:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] [RFC] platform: update galileo to 3.14 kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1471868735-13766-1-git-send-email-padraig.connolly@intel.com> <20160822163337.484cb311@free-electrons.com> <20160823112531.13f75bab@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20160829131959.09cf41e3@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:20:18 +0000, Connolly, Padraig wrote: > Currently there is support for the Quark X1000 SoC itself in the upstream Linux Kernel > but support for the Galileo Gen 1/2 is not fully upstream, there is a Galileo platform driver that is not upstream. > There is also some fixes that affect the USB behavior that are not upstream either. > > This means anything supported by the platform driver will not work with the upstream kernel, > for example GPIO, I2C, and SPI. USB device support is also less reliable without the fix. > > You can find the platform driver in our GitHub repo here : > https://github.com/padraigconnolly/Linux-x1000/tree/master/drivers/platform/x86/intel-quark Then, it's fine to use a non-upstream kernel for this platform. Just update the existing galileo_defconfig. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com