booting arm board

[sanjeev sharma]

Hello John & Nick,

IMO,you should take stable release version of kernel and then give a try
because stable kernel has very less chance.

Regards
Sanjev Sharma

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:14 AM, nick <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:

> John,
> I would recommend building the latest kernel,if it doesn't boot please git
> bisect and send
> in a bug report with the commit to revert, if  there is a obvious commit
> that causes issues.
> If you don't known the maintainer/lists to send the message to run
> ./scripts/get_maintainer -f
> on the file in question from the root directory of your cloned git tree
> and is should tell you
> who to mail the message to and cc the message to.
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> On 2015-01-11 10:38 PM, John de la Garza wrote:
> > I am trying to boot a foxg20 board.  It uses an at91sam9g20 chip an
> > used to work in linux 3.5.  I am looking for some advice on how to get
> > mainline linux to boot on it.
> >
> > I first tried bisecting and found this commit:
> > 4cf3326ab5f34a333a46c59d0d3783db9cef13bf
> >
> > which is where it wouldn't boot
> >
> > I figured I should understand what broke, I ended up simply upping
> > MMC_CMD_RETRIES from 3 to 10.  So I was able to boot the version that
> > caused it to not work.  This change doesn't fix the lastest has unified
> > some of the driver code.
> >
> > My question is:
> >
> > What is a good way to boot the latest kernel?  Should I see where it
> > breaks then keeping fixing that and moving forward or should I just
> > start with the latest and take it from there?
> >
> >
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