Hi, On 17.11.2014 11:14, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> This is a very onerous requirement in the embedded world. There are many > embedded platforms sold today that only have 2.6.X BSPs. > But I highly doubt those devices have modern userlands. Debian jessie with sysvinit boots and works just fine, and swapping out the BSP userland with a Debian root file system from debootstrap is usually simple and sufficient, while forward-porting the kernel drivers is a lot harder. > I find it unlikely that you'd be able to run Jessie on your desktop and > Jessie on your device, at least, not without a little bit of work. We've been doing that for wheezy, so if it no longer works I'd count that as a regression. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
