From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:41:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 0/4] Improvements to i.MX6 SABRESD boards support In-Reply-To: <542020B1.60500@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1411135972-14968-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20140921212519.296ade2a@free-electrons.com> <542020B1.60500@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <5420351D.9050802@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi, Luca Ceresoli wrote: > Dear Thomas, > > thanks for your suggestions. > > Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> Dear Luca Ceresoli, >> >> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:12:48 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote: >> >>> Luca Ceresoli (3): >>> configs/freescale_imx6qsabresd: rename imx6 to imx6q >>> configs/freescale_imx6dlsabresd: add defconfig for iMX6DL SabreSD >>> freescale/imx6-sabresd: document how to create a bootable SD >>> >>> Vincent Stehl? (1): >>> imx6sabresd: boot to /init in mfgtools mode >> >> I've applied your four patches. However, I'd like to see additional >> patches to make the following improvements: >> >> * For the defconfigs, select a specific version of the kernel headers. >> Currently, your defconfigs are building a 3.10 kernel, but the >> kernel headers used in the toolchain are the latest ones (i.e 3.16 >> currently), which is not good. This was already wrong in the >> existing defconfig, so I applied your patches nonetheless. But it >> should be fixed. > > I'm working on this. I switched from Freescale's git repo to vanilla > Linux, since the Freescale releases do not provide any later version. ...or maybe I'll do the other way around: use the kernel headers from Freescale's custom git repo, since the defconfig we currently use (imx_v7_defconfig) is not available in mainline, and the closest one in mainline (imx_v6_v7_defconfig) has several differences, and I'd like to keep things simple and working. I wonder if there's a good reason to use a mainline kernel instead. -- Luca