Re: Info on AT91 patches against mainline kernel

[Ravi Kumar Kulkarni <ravikulkarni@asladvancedsys.in>]

Hi,
>    
>>      
>>> You do not necessarily need the at91-patchset from Andrew.
>>> 2.6.33 works fine on at91sam9261 without it...
>>>
>>> Remy
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks for the info. I will try to compile 2.6.33  now. But i got a mail
>> from andrew  that he updated at91 patchset to 2.6.32 . for clarification jus
>> verifying tat u mean  from 2.6.33 onwards  u  don't need at91 patches and
>> can directly compile without waiting Andrew's patchset . If tats case then
>> Andrew can update that in linux4samdotorg website so that it will be helpful
>>      
> You only need the changes from Andrew in case there is something in
> there that you require, you should look at the changelog to be sure.
> But, the at91sam9261 is already for several years in mainline and it
> works fine (even much older kernels than 2.6.33 will work without it,
> for example we used 2.6.24, 2.6.26, 2.6.31 without it), Andrews
> patchset is just a set of additional changes that will likely be
> pushed to mainline at some time.
>
> Remy
>
>    
got it. thanks a lot for your clarification and info.
warm regards,
Ravi Kulkarni.