Re: kernel version in embedded projects

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:04:08PM +0900, Roman Mashak wrote:
> I'm curious what are the cretirea of chosing kernel of specific version for 
> embedded projects. I suppose it may heavily depend on features supported by 
> kernel and features required by target product.

And what kind of support you want. If you want to work on your own, you
can use any kernel version you want. If you want to have community
support, the only possible kernel is the latest stable (2.6.20 right
now).

> On the other hand, as I know 2.4.x is not well supported any longer, and 
> this could push everyone to move on 2.6, but still a lot of embedded 
> developers are using on 2.4.

For maintenance 2.4 is still used. It would be insane to use 2.4 for
new projects.


Erik

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