From: alexandre.belloni@bootlin•com (Alexandre Belloni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Atmel AT91 support in mainstream kernel 4.4
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:34:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829133410.GE16561@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180821123047.GB3159@1wt.eu>
Hi,
On 21/08/2018 14:30:47+0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 02:10:14PM +0200, Fernando AE wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'd like to know if AT91 boards (more specifically AT91SAM9G20) is
> > well supported in mainstream Kernel 4.4.
> >
> > In more details, I'm working in a project of bringing up Linux 4.4 in
> > a iMX6 based board, while trying to keep the same sources for our
> > legacy AT91 based board. So, I'm wondering if it's a good idea to take
> > Freescale's repo based on 4.4 as reference and compiling both for iMX
> > and AT91.
>
> FWIW I remember having been running an AT91 board (linuxstamp 2) on
> 2.6.35 with a single patch by then, the one needed to create the board.
> Everything else used to work out of the box. I don't see why anything
> would have regressed since then without anyone complaining loud, so I'd
> be inclined to think it's well supported.
>
I confirm we don't have any out of tree patch for the at91sam9g20 so you
will get the best support there is using a mainline kernel.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-29 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-21 12:10 Atmel AT91 support in mainstream kernel 4.4 Fernando AE
2018-08-21 12:26 ` Fabio Estevam
2018-08-21 12:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-08-29 13:34 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2018-08-22 8:15 ` Alexander Dahl
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