[MinnowBoard] Distro version vs peripherals support.

Ferchu R chamac2 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 02:49:08 UTC 2014


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>:

>  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] *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.
>
>
>
> 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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