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From: risingsunxy@googlemail.com (Xu Yang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: arm linux porting effort
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:29:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab40e9c0909010229y3aa6e149v5db94ba90ff972b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9CE50D.40905@googlemail.com>

hi Dirk,

thanks a lot for your good advice.

I will look at this and try:-)

Best regards,

Yang

2009/9/1, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>:
> 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
>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01  8:54 arm linux porting effort Xu Yang
2009-09-01  9:10 ` Dirk Behme
2009-09-01  9:29   ` Xu Yang [this message]
2009-09-01  9:22 ` Wan ZongShun
2009-09-01  9:30   ` Xu Yang
2009-09-01  9:44     ` Wan ZongShun

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