Re: [Qemu-devel] Is realview-pb-a8 fully supported ?

[Francis Moreau]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Peter Maydell
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12 October 2011 20:39, Francis Moreau <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Maydell
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think the mainline kernel sources should in theory work
>>> (in particular if they work with 512MB then that's a good
>>> sign...) but I'm not a kernel expert; mostly I use other peoples'
>>> prebuilt ones.
>>
>> ok, but wouldn't you recommend to use the kernel from Linaro ? ;)
>
> Obviously those work too (and in practice they're the ones
> I test most often with). Linaro kernels will certainly have
> been tested with Versatile Express, but probably not with the
> other older ARM devboards. But if you don't need to be on the
> bleeding edge for anything then I don't think it makes much
> difference whether you use the Linaro kernel or mainline for
> an established platform like the ARM devboards.
> (more info on the aims of the linaro kernel tree here:
> https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/KernelTree
> )


Thanks a lot for your answers.

-- 
Francis