Hi David,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:44 PM, David Glaser
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm looking at the /lib/modules directory of my beaglebone-xm running jessie
> (linux arm 4.4.1-armv7-x5) and I see two sub-directories:
>
> 4.1.17-ti-rt-r47
>
> and
>
> 4.4.1-armv7-x5
>
> What is the intended usage of these two directories.  It appears that some
> of the .ko modules appear in both.  That is, the directories are not exact
> duplicates of each other.

A Couple Reasons:

TI actually dropped "official" support for OMAP3/DM37xx devices after
v3.14.x, so we just use a mainline generic kernel (4.4.1 in that
image's case for the xM)..  Whereas the 4.1.x-ti based kernel has
official support from TI for am335x/am4x/am5x devices..


THUMB2:
The omap3/dm37xx, have an early r1pX Cortex-A8 core, this has lots of
fun thumb2 errata. So the 4.4.1 based kernel was built in non-thumb2
mode..  Whereas the v4.1.x-ti based kernel has THUMB2 enabled by
default..

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/THUMB2_KERNEL.html

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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