On Sunday 03 April 2011, Hector Oron wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/4/3 David Goodenough <[email protected]>: > > The big difficulty with this is going to be getting all the fixes that > > are necessary into the kernels. Given that normal Debian kernels would > > not need the fixes what is their incentive to accept them. > > > > Just look at > > > > the enormous list of patches that OpenWRT applies to the kernels, many > > of which are for SoC peripherals (and this applies to MIPS SoCs as well > > as ARM ones). Yes these fixes should be in the kernel, but they are not > > and without them the kernels are no use for boards like Micro > > Routerboards and Ubiquity Routerstations (to take but two I have tried). > > If someone steps up to apply *and maintain* OpenWRT or other patchsets > against linux-2.6 Debian package. I do not see objection to support > that package in Emdebian and have packages available at Emdebian > repositories. Trying to minimize the work, we could focus on long term > and embedded suitable tagged kernels. > > The above would imply to add support into flash-kernel as well for > infield upgrades. > > Cheers, The problem is that without these patches, Debian in any form can not support these devices because the regular kernel is insufficient.
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