From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:14:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from pD9562DA8.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.86.45.168]:33393 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:14:33 +0100 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9R3EVB8021447; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:14:31 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i9R3EUJQ021446; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:14:30 +0200 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:14:30 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: colin Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Which MIPS kernel is good to start up? linux-mips.org or Montavista? Message-ID: <20041027031430.GC14668@linux-mips.org> References: <007801c4bb2a$9e7ded90$8b1a13ac@realtek.com.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007801c4bb2a$9e7ded90$8b1a13ac@realtek.com.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6218 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:08:34PM +0800, colin wrote: > Hi all, > We want to begin to put Linux to our new board with 4KEc CPU. > Is it better to start porting from Montavista's Kernel, or from the one of > linux-mips.org? > I phoned the sales of Montavista and he told me the difference of these 2 > kernels are little, but their kernels have been tested a lot for stability. A kernel isn't everything you'd get from Montavista; the comparison of a site that's primarily geared towards development and a company that is selling is probably not appropriate ... > Naturally, we would like to choose the kernel version above 2.6. The time where choosing 2.4 for new project still did make sense is over. Ralf