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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