From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/11] Add Linux Kernel stable 4.4.16 patch file for Arietta G25
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:21:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160918202147.077395c7@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160918200207.75421760@free-electrons.com>
Hello,
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:02:07 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:05:58 +0200, Biagio Montaruli wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Biagio Montaruli <biagio.hkr@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > .../patches/linux/linux-4.4.16-arietta.patch | 409 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 409 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 board/acmesystems/arietta-g25/patches/linux/linux-4.4.16-arietta.patch
>
> Is there a good motivation to use the 4.4 kernel that requires some
> patches to support the Arietta, as opposed to using the mainline kernel
> which has support for this platform built-in?
>
> Also, if you really insist in using the 4.4 kernel, in PATCH 05/11,
> you're making the defconfig point to your own Github repository for the
> kernel. Why don't you include the necessary patches in your Github
> repository, then?
After looking more carefully: it's for at91bootstrap3 that you are
using your own Github repository. For the kernel you are using
mainline. So what about using the latest mainline, which has support
for the Arietta and Aria platforms, without the need for patches?
Thanks!
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-18 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-10 11:05 [Buildroot] Patches for Acme Systems Arietta G25 and Aria G25 Biagio Montaruli
2016-08-10 11:05 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/11] Series of patch to improve Buildroot configuration for Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 17:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:05 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/11] Update genimage configuration file for Arietta-G25 in order to build a bootable SD card image named "sdcard.img" Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:05 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/11] Add Linux Kernel stable 4.4.16 patch file for Arietta G25 Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-18 18:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-08-10 11:05 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/11] Add post-build.sh script " Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/11] Add root filesystem overlay files and directories " Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/11] Update and improve default configuration files for Arietta G25 (both 128MB and 256MB version) Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:07 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/11] Update README file for Arietta G25 named "readme.txt" Biagio Montaruli
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/11] Add Linux Kernel stable v4.4.16 patch file for Aria G25 Biagio Montaruli
2016-09-18 18:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/11] Add post-build.sh script " Biagio Montaruli
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/11] Update genimage configuration file and add post-image.sh script for Aria G25 in order to build a bootable SD card image named "sdcard.img" Biagio Montaruli
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/11] Update and improve default configuration files for Arietta G25 (both 128MB and 256MB version) Biagio Montaruli
2016-08-10 11:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/11] Update README file for Aria G25 named "readme.txt" Biagio Montaruli
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