On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 22 March 2008 21:00:56 Alfred E. Heggestad wrote:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > i've started digging into how to add 2.6.24 kernel support for
> > > brcm47xx, which includes updating the Config.in files, the kernel
> > > .config file, the patches and so on.
> > >
> > > is anyone else working on that? some of it's fairly
> > > straightforward, and i've rebased a lot of the brcm47xx-specific
> > > patches, but there are a few i'm not sure what to do with, so if
> > > anyone is the official MIPS support person here, i'd love to chat.
> > > thanks.
> > >
> >
> > hi, I am not working on upgrading to 2.6.24 but I would certainly
> > like to try it on my Asus WL500GP. I am currently running 2.6.23.1.
> >
> >
> > I would also like to try a tickless kernel, if that feature
> > is ported to mips?
>
> My plan was to wait for 2.6.25 and update to that then. Updating to
> 2.6.24 should be possible. But some of the bcm47xx stuff got merged
> upstream and the upstream stuff is outdated. So one would still need
> to take care to properly patch that and keep the bcm47xx code at
> what we currently use in .23.
if you want to try 2.6.25, you can at least start rebasing patches
against the current git pull, which is 2.6.25-rc6. at this point, not
much is going to change between this rc and the final 2.6.25.
rday
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