[MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.

[Ferchu R]

Thanks John. I'll remember.


2014-09-02 21:52 GMT-05:00 Hawley, John <john.hawley at intel.com>:

>  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.
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> -John
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> *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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> *To:* MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.
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> 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?.
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> Thanks, and excuse me for the offtopic.
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> 2014-09-02 20:24 GMT-05:00 Hawley, John <john.hawley at intel.com>:
>
>  Short version: if your kernel is 3.14 or greater, everything is
> supported.
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> 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).
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> -          John
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> *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 4:35 PM
> *To:* MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
> *Subject:* [MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.
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> 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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