On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:50:51AM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote: > On 01/24/2012 10:01 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:59:33PM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:29:34AM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote: > >>>(I'm aware that there is a thread on linaro-dev discussing this > >>>exact topic; this is a request for specific information, so I > >>>decided to start a new thread) > >>> > >>>Hello, > >>> As has been pointed out elsewhere, it is very difficult to find > >>>the exact git tree that corresponds to a kernel release. Currently > >>>the problem I am having is that the 11.11 linaro kernel release > >>>(linux-linaro-lt-omap_3.1.0-1402.5~oneiric1) works well on my new > >>>board, but later kernels do not. While I can download the kernel > >>>tarball for 3.1.0-1402.5 from launchpad, I would much prefer to use > >>>the git tree that it was produced from. Can anybody tell me exactly > >>>which git tree was used to create that kernel, and which tag/branch > >>>I should be looking at? > >> > >>That's a really good question. The answer is that it's this tag and > >>branch: > >> > >> linux-release-2011-12 > >> http://git.linaro.org/git/landing-teams/leb/ti/kernel.git > > > >Sorry, for 11.11 that's tag linux-release-2011-11-1 -- you can see all > >the tags here: > > > > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=landing-teams/leb/ti/kernel.git;a=summary > > Thanks, that is enormously helpful. Though doing a "diff -Nurp" > between leb/ti/kernel.git (tag linux-release-2011-11-1) and the > tarball that I pulled from launchpad > (https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/overlay/+files/linux-linaro-lt-omap_3.1.0-1402.5%7Eoneiric1.tar.gz), > these two trees aren't exactly the same. They are *mostly* the > same, and most of the changes look like they'll be benign to me, but > it is a bit disconcerting.
Here was my outline for a possible way to fix this. http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2012-January/009694.html Do you have any comments on it? Your views are valuable, since you've experienced the problem we're trying to solve. Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
