On May 29, 8:31 pm, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Neo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On May 27, 12:47 am, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Neo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > What is the latestlinux kernelavailable in Android source, looks
> >> > like its is 2.6.27? How can I download Android source withlinux>> >
> >> > kernel2.6.24?
>
> >> You can't.
>
> >> And why would you want to do such a thing, 2.6.24 is a few years old now,
> >> right? Using older kernel versions like that is not a good thing to do.
>
> > Well, maybe 2.6.24 is old
>
> Very old. Hundreds of thousands of kernel changes old. Do you really realize
> how old it is?
>
> > but that's the latest we have.
>
> Who is "we" here? Why can't you use a newer kernel version? What is keeping
> you from updating? Out-of-tree kernel drivers? If so, where are they, I will
> be glad to forward port them for you and get them into the main kernel tree.
>
> > Is there a way around?
>
> As this seems to be a self-inflicted requirement, it seems that you would be
> the only one to be able to resolve this. You can't ask the community to do
> backporting work for you.
>
> > We have our patches to be taken care of
>
> Where are these patches?
>
> > so what is the best way to get Android specific patches form the source,
> > which version oflinux kernelshould I diff it with for getting patches?
>
> Just do a diff on the git tree, it makes it very trivial to do so.
>
> good luck,
>
> greg k-h
Greg, I appreciate your comments.
I am sorry to bother with trivial questions but I am a hardware guy
and not an OS person and hence am new to this. I want to use Android
in our work but as I said our patching work is stuck at 2.6.24. I saw
the GIT repository for android and it has kernels from still earlier.
So if I am correct I have two options-
(i) Use the android 2.6.24 kernel and download other platform related
code from the git and see if it builds, this is certainly hopeless I
feel, or
(ii) Use the latest stable release of Android and port our changes to
that kernel. This is feasible but very time consuming I think.
Let me know if what I have deduced is correct. Does it mean that one
cannot download Android sources for some specific kernel version like
2.6.24 or 2.6.27 or 2.6.29? Wouldn't it have been very useful if it
was possible?
Thanks,
Neo
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