[MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.

Hawley, John john.hawley at intel.com
Wed Sep 3 02:52:35 UTC 2014


Could be, shouldn’t be too hard to try a newer kernel on the NUC, but it’s slightly outside my area, and I don’t have one to check for you with.  With respect to the MAX on a 3.14+ kernel, if you have problems give us a shout here as last I checked everything was working out of the box.

-John

From: elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Ferchu R
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 7:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.

Hi John. I will try a 3.14+ kernel. By the way, I have an Intel DE3815TYBE "NUC" board (Atom E3815). I don't want to hijack my own thread, but I have not been able to use the onboard serial ports. As far as you know (maybe is not your speciality field) could this be caused by the lack of support of older kernels on bay trail?.

Thanks, and excuse me for the offtopic.

2014-09-02 20:24 GMT-05:00 Hawley, John <john.hawley at intel.com<mailto:john.hawley at intel.com>>:
Short version: if your kernel is 3.14 or greater, everything is supported.

Long version: if your kernel is 3.14 everything is supported, but I can’t speak to what every distro has compiled into it, or has modules for, generally speaking I know I tend to run Fedora on my MAXes, and I know one of the interns has a tendency to run Mint, and neither of us has had any issues with any of the drivers (outside of needing board files to make specific SPI or I2C devices work).


-          John

From: elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org<mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org> [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org<mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org>] On Behalf Of Ferchu R
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Subject: [MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.

Hi:

I just received a couple of MinnowMax that I have ordered on July. Now I have to decide on what distro I will put my time on. My main consideration is the support of peripherals (GPIO, Serial ports, SPI, etc). I know the eLinux page "Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros", but there is not much information on what distros should ease the work with these peripherals. I remember have read something about the support of the Atom processor could be better on newer kernel version. Should I worry about the Kernel Version more than the distro?.

Thanks.

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