On Mar 12, 2018 8:39 AM, "Daniel Kulp" <d...@kulp.com> wrote:
Is there a document or something that describes the differences between the --bone, --armv7, and --ti kernels? Why to choose one over the other? etc.... Bone = am335x targets, no smp armv7 = all armv7 including things that will slow done am335x Ti = utilizes TI sdk kernel.. aka ti engineers get paid to support that kernel.. patches end up mainline.. I've been using the --ti --lts-4_14, but recent versions are completely broken for advanced WIFI use cases so I'm kind of trying to figure out what options I have to replace it. Sometime between 4.14.13-ti-r25 and the current 4.14 version, someone made the boneheaded (pun intended, no offense intended) to include the USB wifi adapters as builtins instead of modules. This completely breaks any usage of external wifi modules that work "better" (or in some cases, actually work). We cannot blacklist the builtin modules (even tried the command line params, didn't work). And even without blacklist, they don't work as the firmwares needed by the wifi adapters are not included in the initial rd. I'm not sure why they are now built in instead of modules, but it's certainly a huge step backwards IMO. That's me, was trying to speed up boot times, we can revert it back to modules. I can stay on 4.14.13-ti-r25 which works fine, but I'm not sure what fixes and such I'd be missing out on going forward. The --bone kernels don't seem to have btrfs which, while not critical, is something we've been looking closer at for the COW and compression. The armv7 kernel seems to work for both btrfs and wifi, but I really don't know what else I'm missing out on with that version. Let me know which ones have btrfs disabled, as they should be enabled again. Regards -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ msgid/beagleboard/31fc75f9-8fb4-474d-95f9-e0cce232eee2%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/31fc75f9-8fb4-474d-95f9-e0cce232eee2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYiLf_Jr8jhUZO21LO%2B%3D3meNi5U9ivn%2BQuTL78z_wn7gmw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
