> hi all, > Is there any possible way to port open source mac > stck on linux kernel 2.6.13.0 . Problem is, i am using a > embedded platform which is supporting only 2.6.13. 0 and now > assigned job is to make it working for open source mac stack > without porting any other changes of linux kernel . > > Any help is much appreciated. I think you won't get much help (at least not free help), because the managers of this embedded product made same grave design decision errors some years ago. They developed (or let develop) against what was current at that time, 2.6.13.0. But they never tried to get their changes upstream, into the main kernel. So the put themselves onto an island. Hey, they even didn't update their kernel to get the security updates of 2.6.13.5. Looks like a "fire-and-forget" approach, which might in some cases save money, but often backfires. If their work would have been included upstream, it would had got a) a cost-free peer-review at the time of submission (good for code quality) b) cost-free updates to newer kernel versions, at least in the area of infrastructure changes and compile-tests. This might not guarantee that it still runs, but it's better than doing it all by yourself :-) It would then be trivial to use a modern kernel on this embedded target, with mac80211 on this device. Now it's almost impossible, because so much of the in-kernel infrastructure has changed in the meantime, see http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
