On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 12 October 2011 20:39, Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Maydell >> <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> I think the mainline kernel sources should in theory work >>> (in particular if they work with 512MB then that's a good >>> sign...) but I'm not a kernel expert; mostly I use other peoples' >>> prebuilt ones. >> >> ok, but wouldn't you recommend to use the kernel from Linaro ? ;) > > Obviously those work too (and in practice they're the ones > I test most often with). Linaro kernels will certainly have > been tested with Versatile Express, but probably not with the > other older ARM devboards. But if you don't need to be on the > bleeding edge for anything then I don't think it makes much > difference whether you use the Linaro kernel or mainline for > an established platform like the ARM devboards. > (more info on the aims of the linaro kernel tree here: > https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/KernelTree > )
Thanks a lot for your answers. -- Francis