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From: risingsunxy@googlemail.com (Xu Yang)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:29:11 +0200
Subject: arm linux porting effort
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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
>