Thread: [Announce] kernel-power stable v51 in Extras-Devel
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2013-01-11 , 15:46
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Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
AFAIK I am the only one so far who has successfully booted fremantle with 3.5(including working SGX driver).]
This is pretty impressive!

Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
The point is that without drastically modifying the vanilla, we'll hit newer sysfs interfaces, closed parts in fremantle and whatnot.
I'm not hacked enough kernel to really measure how much there would be work. But reimplementing closed source parts would be good thing anyway.

Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
I wonder what exactly benefit do you expect from 3.8 on n900?
*every time feature is backported it is proof that we should have newer kernel
*rumours that ARM is more supported [e.g. http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/20...l-upstreaming/]
*Just to keep maemo up-to-date (but maybe kernel is not top priority)
 

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