From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:10:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:33276 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:10:19 +0100 Received: from mvista.com (prometheus.mvista.com [10.0.0.139]) by hermes.mvista.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C09185A9; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <417E76E9.1020003@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:10:17 -0700 From: Manish Lachwani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Popov Cc: colin , 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> <417DF8BC.4080001@embeddedalley.com> In-Reply-To: <417DF8BC.4080001@embeddedalley.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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: 6215 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: mlachwani@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Pete Popov wrote: > 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 > Hello ! Montavista has a 2.6 eval release that has support for this CPU. Among the boards that are supported includes Malta and SWARM Thanks Manish Lachwani