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Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?



On Monday 25 January 2016 14:58:27 Ian Campbell wrote:
> > As I got the impression that support for the RPi was now present in
> > upstream and (therefor) the Debian kernels,
> 
> The "therefor" won't happen automatically, someone will need to file a
> wishlist bug asking for the relevant options to be enabled in the Debian
> kernel configuration.
> 
> For the RPi's with the newer CPU cores it makes clear sense to do that in
> the armhf/armmp kernel flavour (since it is the "multiplatform" flavour,
> and the only one we want to support).

I'll give it a try, but first have to learn about the armmp stuff.

Here is the default kernel configuration for the RPi 2: 
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-4.4.y/arch/arm/configs/bcm2709_defconfig 
(which does not seem part of 
https://sources.debian.net/src/linux/4.4-1~exp1/arch/arm/configs/)

> For the RPi's with the older cores it wouldn't seem to make much sense to
> enable it in the armel/versatile flavour (because I can't see why it fits
> there, despite folks apparently adding it there), but equally I'm not sure
> we want to be adding new flavours to armel (which is essentially on the
> downward slope of the support lifecycle at this stage). Perhaps others
> around here feel differently though.

Bummer for me as it won't solve the issue I hoped it would solve, but I'll try 
other avenues for that. 
But still, thanks for clarifying :-)

Cheers,
  Diederik

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