From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Ron Bianco <ronb@lcsaudio.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel choices for 824x with ext3 FS
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:10:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031021201042.534DAC59E4@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:47:27 PDT." <000101c3980c$2811a3a0$4d00a8c0@warp-speed>
Dear Ron,
in message <000101c3980c$2811a3a0$4d00a8c0@warp-speed> you wrote:
>
> I've been looking at Denx's 2.4.4 port, linuxppc 2.5, linux 2.4.22 and the
> latest 2.6.0-test trees.
You can also use our linuxppc_2_4_devel tree from CVS (version 2.4.20)
> BTW, many thanks to Wolfgang Denk for making available the ELDK and his ( and
> others ) embedded PPC specific work!
You are welcome :-)
> Unfortunately we can't use 2.4.4 as ext3 FS support is not present.
> FYI, we may also have a need to use RTAI.
We use our linuxppc_2_4_devel tree to validate the PowerPC port of RTAI.
> It is desirable to use the most up to date, yet robust for ppc, kernel possible
> and this is somewhat awkward timing vis a vis the status of the 2.6.0 kernel.
> But most pertinent ppc related patches seem to be included in 2.6.0 now along
> with other enhancements, such as reduced latency, that are not present in
> 2.4.22. So it is a bit of a quandary for me, and perhaps for others as well.
I think our 2.4.20 tree is pretty stable; this is one reason we don't
support more recent versions yet.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 19:47 Kernel choices for 824x with ext3 FS Ron Bianco
2003-10-21 20:10 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2003-10-21 22:36 ` Ron Bianco
2003-10-22 8:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
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