New kernel for Chipbox

[Harishkumar V]

That is better approach.
u can try compat-wireless. It supports wide range of kernel version. What
wifi are u using, ralink or others? Each wifi has source, u can compile
against ur kernel to build module. U need to enable wireless support in ur
kernel.
On 10 Jun 2012 00:36, "Sertac TULLUK" <sertac at merihvideo.com.tr> wrote:

> Dear Javier,
>
> Sorry for late reply, but thank you.
>
> I also searched for many things on the net, read a lot of documentation,
> but it seems almost impossible thing to do... (That is shame, where is the
> power of linux? :) Just kidding )
>
> Is there any way to do backporting ? For example, adding CIFS or USB WIFI
> support to my current kernel?
>
> If so, what are the steps for it?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Sertac
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Martinez Canillas" <
> martinez.javier at gmail.com>
> To: "Sertac TULLUK" <sertac at merihvideo.com.tr>
> Cc: "Harishkumar V" <harishpresent at gmail.com>; <
> kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.**org <kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org>>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: New kernel for Chipbox
>
>
>  On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Sertac TULLUK <sertac at merihvideo.com.tr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Harishkumar;
>>>
>>> I already know how to find the changes, please see my 1st e-mail below.
>>>
>>> The problem is, those changes are more than thousands of lines of code,
>>> and
>>> hundreds of files are added or modified.
>>>
>>> I wonder, how can I apply those thousands of changes to new kernel source
>>> quickly and easily?
>>>
>>>
>> The bad news is that there isn't a quickly and easily way to do it.
>> The kernel doesn't have an stable API (read
>> Documentation/stable_api_**nonsense.txt) and the ARM part of the kernel
>> is one of the most fast changing lately. So probably most of the
>> drivers and SoC enablement platform code won't work with newer
>> kernels.
>>
>> So, this isn't a trivial task.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --
>> Javier Martínez Canillas
>> (+34) 682 39 81 69
>> Barcelona, Spain
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