On Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:39 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/20/2014 02:24 PM, Huub Van Niekerk wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:32 PM, Paul <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 19 February 2014, Huub Van Niekerk wrote:
>
>> The patch you created for the armhf architecture, will it work
>> with older Linux kernels such as 2.6.x and 3.2.x as well ?
>
>> Just to clarify, the patch that I submitted is for the Broadcom
>> BCM2835 SoC (an ARMv6K core) - armhf covers a variety of ARM
>> flavours.
>
>> If you can find a 2.6.xx kernel that has support for the BCM2835
>> AND includes the DWC-OTG drivers, there is no reason why the
>> Raspberry Pi patch couldn't be adapted.
>
>> The 3.2.x kernel reportedly had a few serious bugs - I don't know
>> if these bugs impacted on the BCM2835 or the operation of Xenomai.
>> If you are looking at using a 3.x.x series kernel, it would be
>> advisable to get the latest stable release that has a corresponding
>> Xenomai patch.
>
> I just tried to build xenomai-2.6.2 on armhf (after applying your
> patch) using debuild -us -uc. This fails with an error I had before:
> fatal error at line 1350: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -B -us -uc
> failed. Does this mean that your patch is not suitable for v. 2.6.2
> ?
>Please do not use 2.6.2, it was so buggy that 2.6.2.1 was released just
>a little time after. And in fact, there is no reason not to use 2.6.3,
>it is ABI compatible with 2.6.2 and 2.6.2.1.
OK. The reason I tried 2.6.2 is that this version has a patch for kernel 3.2,
which 2.6.3 has not, as far as I can see.
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