[Buildroot] [PATCH] [RFC] platform: update galileo to 3.14 kernel

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:20:18 +0000, Connolly, Padraig wrote:

> Currently there is support for the Quark X1000 SoC itself in the upstream Linux Kernel 
> but support for the Galileo Gen 1/2 is not fully upstream, there is a Galileo platform driver that is not upstream.
> There is also some fixes that affect the USB behavior that are not upstream either.
> 
> This means anything supported by the platform driver will not work with the upstream kernel, 
> for example GPIO, I2C, and SPI.  USB device support is also less reliable without the fix.
> 
> You can find the platform driver in our GitHub repo here : 
> https://github.com/padraigconnolly/Linux-x1000/tree/master/drivers/platform/x86/intel-quark

Then, it's fine to use a non-upstream kernel for this platform. Just
update the existing galileo_defconfig.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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