armel fsl-im51 meta packages

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Aug 21 16:27:40 UTC 2009


Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>> linux-source-fsl-imx51 --> linux-fsl-imx51-source-ABI
>>>  We have one source per ABI?  Or is this just KVERS?
>> Yes, in this case I used ABI as a shorthand for
>> $(KERNEL_VERSION)-$(KERNEL_ABI), e.g., 2.6.31-200
> 
>  Ok; why not just KVERS like on the other arches?  e.g.
>  linux-source-2.6.28 and linux-source-2.6.31 as I see on my karmic
>  system right now
> 

Because linux-source-2.6.31 references the distro kernel source code
base whereas the ARM kernels are _each_ built from different source code
bases. The use of the ABI distinguishes which ARM source code base is
being referenced.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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