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OLinuXino Android / Linux boards and System On Modules => A20 => Topic started by: fushfush on June 17, 2016, 01:56:25 PM

Title: New kernel.
Post by: fushfush on June 17, 2016, 01:56:25 PM
Hi

Can someone explain this to me; why do the official debian image use the 3.14 kernel??
why is the image stuck where?

Is it possible to upgrade to the 4.6.2 or maybe 4.7-rc3 ? Or some RT-kernel? And how?

I'm familiar to handle kernel upgrades/tweaks on x86, but on arm i'm lost

Thanks.
Title: Re: New kernel.
Post by: martinayotte on June 17, 2016, 05:05:36 PM
You can check at http://www.armbian.com/download/.
There are some Legacy kernel but also some Vanilla/Mainline.
Of course, depending of your requirements, going to Mainline could sometime lead to some lack of features if those aren't ported yet.
Title: Re: New kernel.
Post by: fushfush on June 19, 2016, 09:44:33 AM
Quote from: martinayotte on June 17, 2016, 05:05:36 PM
You can check at http://www.armbian.com/download/.
There are some Legacy kernel but also some Vanilla/Mainline.
Of course, depending of your requirements, going to Mainline could sometime lead to some lack of features if those aren't ported yet.

So as i can understand, we only stay because of some ported features? Does anybody now the difference between the standard/mainline kernel (Which support ARM)and the one we use?
Title: Re: New kernel.
Post by: soenke on June 19, 2016, 11:18:58 AM
Have a look here:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
Title: Re: New kernel.
Post by: igorpec on June 19, 2016, 12:41:39 PM
I just rebuilt all images for Lime 2. They all boot & I did quick test for few basic things.

Xenial / Jessie, desktop / CLI, 3.4.112 and 4.6.2
http://www.armbian.com/olimex-lime-2/