From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:12:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from adsl-68-124-224-226.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([IPv6:::ffff:68.124.224.226]:2054 "EHLO goobz.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:12:38 +0100 Received: from [10.2.2.70] (adsl-63-194-214-47.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.214.47]) by goobz.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i9Q7CVA16981; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:12:31 -0700 Message-ID: <417DF8BC.4080001@embeddedalley.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:11:56 -0700 From: Pete Popov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: colin CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Which MIPS kernel is good to start up? linux-mips.org or Montavista? References: <007801c4bb2a$9e7ded90$8b1a13ac@realtek.com.tw> In-Reply-To: <007801c4bb2a$9e7ded90$8b1a13ac@realtek.com.tw> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 6208 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: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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. > > Naturally, we would like to choose the kernel version above 2.6. I don't believe MV currently offers a 2.6 based MIPS distro. Pete