[Avila] gw2348-4/ixp425 and a vanilla kernel

[David Acker]

Chris Lang wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> No, the CF Driver is not a part of the vanilla kernel, nor is the driver 
> for the sensors on the board (Temp, volt). There may be other patches 
> that I can't remember off of the top of my head. Also, the latest BSP 
> does not actually contain the 2.6 kernel provided from uCLinux nor the 
> Snapgear kernel. It is a vanilla kernel that has been patched with all 
> of the necessary patches to support the Avila platform (I know because I 
> did about 75% of the work for the latest BSP). So, if you took the 
> vanilla 2.6.15 kernel and did a diff with the one provided in the BSP, 
> the result's would be all of the necessary patches to apply to any 
> future 2.6 kernel's. If you would like to advance to the newest kernel, 
> I would suggest doing this.
> 
> FYI, you can drop a vanilla kernel tree into the snapgear tree and 
> succesfully build it, no need to reproduce your own userspace environment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Lang
> 

Just to clarify, are you saying that version .06 of the gateworks avila 
devkit has a patched kernel that is based on a vanilla 2.6.15 kernel? 
If that is true, that would be great.  If it isn't, where can I get the 
BSP you are speaking about?
-Ack