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Re: Cubox-i-notes questions



On 2014-08-03, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>> Debian jessie could likely go final around December and
>> predictions are the jessie kernel will be 3.16. My hope is full support for
>> the Cubox hardware is mainlined into the 3.16 by then - a year after I
>> purchased the device.  
>
> I am not a kernel expert, but I have not seen significant work going into the 
> 3.16 kernel for imx6.
>
> If you need video or wireless, I recommend to use either the 3.0.x or the 
> 3.10.x kernel from solid-run. Be aware that the 3.10.x kernel has some bugs, 
> e.g.

I did have basic video with fbdev working with 3.15.x from experimental:

  https://bugs.debian.org/750406

but 3.16.x from experimental doesn't seem to work for me:

  https://bugs.debian.org/756810

Which is funny, because the patches to get video working on 3.15 came
From mainline 3.16.x... *sigh*


live well,
  vagrant

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