From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754227Ab0CHEdf (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:33:35 -0500 Received: from fox.spectranet.com ([203.122.59.43]:48807 "EHLO fox.spectranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753800Ab0CHEd2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 23:33:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4B947AD6.30105@asladvancedsys.in> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:04:34 +0545 From: Ravi Kumar Kulkarni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@bohmer.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@maxim.org.za Subject: Re: Info on AT91 patches against mainline kernel References: <4B868701.3010904@asladvancedsys.in> <3efb10971003050229na0fd4fbl128a890b0cf245c0@mail.gmail.com> <4B90E415.5090106@asladvancedsys.in> <3efb10971003050634o37807a22tccd5c9416f3eb7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3efb10971003050634o37807a22tccd5c9416f3eb7a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - fox.spectranet.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - asladvancedsys.in Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.