On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:11:33PM +0100, John Whitmore wrote: > I've a question regarding the building of the linux kernel, more specifically > which kernel to build. Always the latest version, why would you want to build an old one? > I've previously built the kernel for an 86 arch but this time I want to build > for the RaspberryPi. I can easily get the current version of the installed > kernel with the "uname -a" command but that doesn't tell me the git repo > where the kernel originated. I'd imagine that it's from the RPi git repo, but > that adds another level of confusion as that git repo doesn't have any tags at > all. So even given the version number from uname how to check out a suitable > version of the kernel. If you are using hardware that is not completly supported in the main kernel.org repo, like many embedded devices like the RPi, I suggest using the source repo that the project provides instead. > I could take the latest from the RPi repo and use "make oldconfig" but I > wonder how far, in kernel versions, I can jump and not affect the installed > libs and utilities which have been built against another version of the > kernel? You should always be able to use a new kernel on old userspace with no problems. Going backwards is not supported (old kernel on new userspace.) hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
