[Buildroot] Fwd: Re: Basic questions about using BuildRoot

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Sep 27 12:21:24 UTC 2012


Dear Martin Peevski,

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:57:30 +0300, Martin Peevski wrote:

> > I'd rather recommend using the latest mainline version. AT91
> > support in mainline is really good.
> 
> I think that it's mandatory to use exactly 2.6.30 version because the 
> Ronetix board isn't included in the main line of any later Kernel.

Ok. That said, porting a recent kernel on a AT91SAM9G45 board is
probably a matter of a few hours for someone knowledgeable with ARM
kernel development, unless the board has some funky peripherals that
are not supported in mainline.

Best regards,

Thomas
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