Re: compat-driver doesn't compile

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>I don't expect you to be an expert, and supporting RasberryPi's kernel
>seems like a worthwhile effort to support, so I'd gladly accept
>patches for whoever wants to support that if the kernel can be
>identified somehow.

I hope it's will be usefull
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux

2013/3/9 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Manu <vbmanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>      >      | What kernel are you on?
>>>      >      |
>>>      >      | uname -r
>>>      >
>>>      > 3.6.11+
>>
>>>      What is this + postfix here ? What distribution are you running? Is
>>>      this a vanilla kernel from kernel.org or some modified Linux
>>>      distribution kernel? When distributions decide they want to
>>>      incorporate some behavior from future kernels into older kernels they
>>>      break proper kernel backport detection / support and this requires
>>>      manual intervention on compat / compat-drivers. So for example RHEL
>>>      and SUSE kernels are supported on compat / compat-drivers. Other than
>>>      that we support vanilla kernels. The better you describe where your
>>>      kernel came from the better we are able to provide support. Also
>>>      please note that every single compat-drivers release come already
>>>      compile tested against all supported kernels: 2.6.24 - 3.9, so hearing
>>>      a compile issue is odd. One other possibility on a compile issue other
>>>      than a custom distro hacked kernel is a different kernel
>>>      configuration. Right now we use a basic desktop type like kernel
>>>      configuration for our tests.
>>
>> I'm running Gentoo/arm on RaspberryPi Kernel. I'm not an expert, but I
>> think the error depends on PCI missing on arm architecture.
>
> I don't expect you to be an expert, and supporting RasberryPi's kernel
> seems like a worthwhile effort to support, so I'd gladly accept
> patches for whoever wants to support that if the kernel can be
> identified somehow.
>
>   Luis
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