On 2014-11-23 12:35, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> On 23/11/14 03:03, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:07:42AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
>>> On 2014-11-23 01:16, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>>> My tests:
>>>> armhf 3.8.13.28: FTBFS
>>>
>>> Was this either a Debian or a vanilla kernel? I ask because 3.8 kernels
>>> are often vendor-provided variants of certain ARM devices.
>>
>> I have heard myths of ARM devices that can run upstream kernels, but I have
>> yet to see one :p.  This one is git://github.com/hardkernel/linux, a pretty
>> well behaved one as vendor kernels go.
> 
> Guys, I went crazy and tested this assertion. I've upgraded the vendor
> arm kernel to the testing kernel and guess what - it didn't boot...
> (I'll have to fix it when I'm back home)

Oh, I should have warned you, sorry!

What I forgot to say was that generally speaking, if it's not a bug that
can be reproduced with a Debian kernel or vanilla kernel of the same
version(in a QEMU VM, for instance) , I'm going to go by experience
assume that it's a bug in the vendor kernel.


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