Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Jason Kridner <jkrid...@beagleboard.org> writes: >> >>> It is time to make another big software push for BeagleBone Black. We >>> have several recent updates from Robert, including managing the kernel >>> as Debian packages. >>> >>> To try out the new code, use one of the recent images from: >>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-08-05 >>> >>> Then, you'll need to switch to the 3.14 kernel: >>> sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.17-ti-r10 >>> >> It seems like this image has a greatly reduced set of modules (namely >> the `rt2x00` driver isn't built, although looking at the .config diff it >> looks like many drivers are omitted). Could the build configuration be >> modified to include a wider breadth of drivers? > > enabled them last week: > > sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.17-ti-r19 > Oops, should have checked this.
> ( i need to add a : linux-image-bb.org-v3.14-meta-package ) > >> Out of curiosity, currently apt knows of three kernel series (run on a >> 2014-09-03 installation): `-ti`, `-bone`, and what is presumably the >> unsuffixed Debian upstream kernels. From what trees do these builds >> originate? Who maintains them? I guess the `-ti` kernel is new >> preferred kernel? > > So the "-bone" is close to mainline (small # of patches). The "-ti" we > are a basing on a ti branch: (git.ti.com, patchset >20Mb).. Plus the > 'debian' linux-image-armmp will also work once we switch to jessie.. > (you can even install ubuntu's linux-image *.deb) the bootloader will > find it. > > v3.14-ti repo: https://github.com/beagleboard/linux/tree/3.14 > Thanks for the clarifcation! Cheers, - Ben
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