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On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 06:34:06PM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Moin Hinnerk, |
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> (hopefully have guessed this greet correctly...I am from that |
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> part of Germany ;) |
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> I have the source of the driver exclusivly compiled for 3.8.13 |
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> as for 3.14.something (cant remember). |
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> 3.14.x has some other problems (on that embedded platform) like |
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> not powering off when shutdown, random reboots and such. |
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> So decided to go back to 3.8.13. |
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> Yesterday I started updateing (eix-sync and emerge) that Gentoo |
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> and it ends up in an endless loop (bash update) of configureing |
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> (damn slow on that mini iron) and compiling - as it looks - |
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> of a single file. |
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> After more than 10 hours I CTRL-C that, reupated and now I am |
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> ...updateing the bash again. |
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> Sigh. |
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> Currently "fun" is something else... |
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> Is the 3.15.10++ branch free of things like random reboot and |
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> not powering off? |
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Moin Meino, |
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(you've hit dead on spot: is there another "valid" greeting except that one? |
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;-) ) |
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Right now I don't have a beaglebone black so sadly I can't provide any first |
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hand experience. |
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A 10 hour configure loop definitely sounds fishy to me. I'm running |
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a (hardened) Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi right now and I do compiling natively |
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most of the time (as it's not a that critical machine). As it's an even more |
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mini iron I know that it can be time consuming (maybe interesting: bash: 25 |
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minutes, 57 seconds for 29 merges). |
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My rpi runs on a 3.16.3 kernel and my experience is that newer kernels help |
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immensely if available (that is if the hardware is either supported upstream or |
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there is a vendor branch testing new kernels). Especially for arm there is much |
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better support lately. |
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I find for less used platforms (read: "not-x86/amd64) the newer kernels are |
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often more stable than "stable" ones because the latter often doesn't |
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experience much testing. |
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So in the end there aren't many more options than just try it out (kernel |
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builds are quick luckily because - as you stated in your other reply - kernel |
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builds are very easily cross-compilable). |
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Good luck/Viel Erfolg, |
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Hinnerk |
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