[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] raspberrypi2: switch Linux kernel to rpi-3.18.y

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri May 1 08:25:58 UTC 2015


Dear Frank Hunleth,

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:36:43 -0400, Frank Hunleth wrote:
> This changes the kernel used on the Raspberry Pi 2 from the 3.19 branch
> back to the 3.18 branch. This provides a couple of advantages:
> 
>   1. mmc0 works again. Floris Bos found out that this was due to using
>      the precompiled DTB files from rpi-firmware. These DTBs were built
>      using 3.18.
>   2. The rpi-3.18.y branch is not regularly rebased like rpi-3.19.y
>      according to popcornmix. See
>      https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/915.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth at troodon-software.com>
> ---
>  configs/raspberrypi2_defconfig | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied both patches, thanks.

What about the raspberrypi_defconfig ? Is there any reason to keep it
around using the 3.12 kernel ? Or can we rename
raspberrypi_dt_defconfig to raspberrypi_defconfig ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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