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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, mike zheng wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
> > mike zheng wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, all the applications are running on 2.4 kernel. I can not
> > > just throw the 2.4 kernel.
> >
> > And in what way does 2.6 break these applications?
> 
> All the device drivers are based on 2.4 kernel. We plan to upgrade to 2.6 in
                             ^^^^^^^^
derived from?

> the middle of next year.

> > Any suggest or comment is welcome, I am struggling with this issue for
> > > almost one week...... :-(
> >
> > How long would you have struggled with getting your applications running
> > on a more recent kernel instead?
> 
> 
> Don't know, maybe 16 weeks. That is out of my control. I only deal with the
> kernel.....:-)

Ah, good, so the device drivers are in user space.
What in user space has changed completely between 2.4 and 2.6?

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