From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 22:59:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/lego_ev3: bump kernel to 4.4 series In-Reply-To: <20161015165155.20004-1-vincent.stehle@laposte.net> References: <20161015165155.20004-1-vincent.stehle@laposte.net> Message-ID: <20161015225928.4551f99a@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 Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:51:55 +0200, Vincent Stehle wrote: > From: Vincent Stehl? > > Bump kernel revision used by lego_ev3_defconfig to the latest tag from > ev3dev, as suggested by Peter. This is a 4.4 series kernel, which has the > added benefit of not necessitating a specific gcc to boot. > > We need a patch to create an empty drivers/lego/Kconfig file for the build > to succeed though, as the ev3dev kernel normally expects a drivers tree to > be checked out there. > > Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehl? > Suggested-by: Peter Korsgaard I've applied your patch to master, thanks! One comment below, though. > Prepare your SDcard > =================== > > The following ?SD card layout is recommended: > > -- First partition formated with a FAT filesystem, containing the uImage. > +- First partition formatted with a FAT filesystem, containing the uImage. > - Second partition formatted as ext2 or ext3, containing the root filesystem. > > Create the SDcard partition table It would be nice to use genimage here to automatically create a complete SD card image. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com