From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dirk.behme@googlemail.com (Dirk Behme) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:10:37 +0200 Subject: arm linux porting effort In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A9CE50D.40905@googlemail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Xu Yang wrote: > hi guys, > > we already have linux kernel 2.6.29 running on our own arm1176 > platform. now I would like to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.30(or we can > say to port 2.6.30 on our platform). I haven't done this before, so I > don't know how much effort this means. > > anyone any ideas? or any hints? From 2.6.29 to 2.6.30 you could try to let git do the work. Try to git merge (or rebase?), resolve the conflicts, build, boot and check if everything is still working. If you create an extra branch for this, you will break nothing and will know the effort afterwards ;) Best regards Dirk