Hello John & Nick, IMO,you should take stable release version of kernel and then give a try because stable kernel has very less chance.
Regards Sanjev Sharma On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:14 AM, nick <xerofo...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, > I would recommend building the latest kernel,if it doesn't boot please git > bisect and send > in a bug report with the commit to revert, if there is a obvious commit > that causes issues. > If you don't known the maintainer/lists to send the message to run > ./scripts/get_maintainer -f > on the file in question from the root directory of your cloned git tree > and is should tell you > who to mail the message to and cc the message to. > Cheers, > Nick > > On 2015-01-11 10:38 PM, John de la Garza wrote: > > I am trying to boot a foxg20 board. It uses an at91sam9g20 chip an > > used to work in linux 3.5. I am looking for some advice on how to get > > mainline linux to boot on it. > > > > I first tried bisecting and found this commit: > > 4cf3326ab5f34a333a46c59d0d3783db9cef13bf > > > > which is where it wouldn't boot > > > > I figured I should understand what broke, I ended up simply upping > > MMC_CMD_RETRIES from 3 to 10. So I was able to boot the version that > > caused it to not work. This change doesn't fix the lastest has unified > > some of the driver code. > > > > My question is: > > > > What is a good way to boot the latest kernel? Should I see where it > > breaks then keeping fixing that and moving forward or should I just > > start with the latest and take it from there? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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