Mike Coburn wrote:
> So. What is the code? I found a README that said the
> "2.3.xx" was the actual kernel release and the "rmk"x was a date.
> But that does not look like a date to me. And I've not been able to
> find what the pre stuff means.
These are all patches to the Linux kernel source tree. Essentially, to get a
kernel that will do something useful on your hardware (more on that later),
you'll need to collect a recent tree and one or more of these files which update
the tree.
Here's a current version of the kernel:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.0-test4.tar.gz
Ordinarily, you'd have to collect two or three patches from various places in
order to bring this code up to speed, but this week, you're in luck. Just get:
ftp://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/people/nico/diff-2.4.0-test4-np1.gz
Information on applying patches and compiling the kernel can be found elsewhere
online, so I won't repeat it here.
> But the arm patch stuff and all the different Brutus, SA1100,1110, 1111,
> and
> Assebet, and others are all pretty bewildering. I have a board with
> sa1110
> wrote on it and a board with sa1111 wrote on it and a touch screen. I
> don't
> know whether that is a Brutus or a Howdy Doody.
It sounds like you have an Assabet (the SA-1110 board) and a Neponset (the
SA-1111 board). Take a look at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wearable/software/assabet.html
> Plaese advise as to where to find the keys or just give me a hint of
> what the pre and the rnk stuff means.
Up until recently, we were at a pre-release version of kernel 2.3.99. Linus went
on vacation, but has released a "test" release of kernel 2.4.0, which isn't too
terribly different from the "pre" kernels. The "RMK" refers, naturally, to
THE developer of ARM Linux (Russell King). As patches are released to a given
kernel tree, the resulting tree is identified by a version string that might
include the name of the developer and a serial number, as in "2.3.48-rmk2"
(Russell's second patch release for kernel 2.3.48).
-jd
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