I want to run the updated 3.12 kernel on my Pi but noticed there are Xbian patches
should i just pull a defconfig from my device and compile with your config
or is there a .patch file i can have
or maybe a github where it is hosted...?
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zarboz
https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian-patches , folder kernel.
if you don't use LIRC and you change /etc/default/xbian-rand not use frandom, then you don't need the patches.
take rpi branch, modprobe configs will give you .config.
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zarboz
btw: is btrfs somehow stabilized now with 3.12.x? I tested 3.12.1 for few hours weeks ago and got serious fs damage after a day.
dmesg was constantly full of btrfs errors / updates. also got 2 panics.
Let me know about the BTRFS issue (one check through dmesg will do it). "clean orphans" is not considered to be a bad thing.
I'm asking because I wanted to go to 3.12 with XBian because huge btrfs-metadata optimalizations and arm based changes in vanilla. Just need a green light before I mess with it again.
If zarboz is such a kernel passionate, why not ask him to join the team regarding kernel compilation, just like Koenkk is doing XBMC compilation?
I just got some time to sit down and fork into the repo's
I'll be buying a second pi to play with next pay period and will be able to start playing with kernels at that point as my current pi is my wifes media center.. (you know you cant take those away ;-)
(also thinking about ordering a Udoo for something to play with too
)
Still probably going to dig through some BTRFS patch history and see what I can do to get it to play nice with my Pi (if there is a problem anymore even)
I have seen the 3.12 kernel performs well on other dev boards so I have faith that I can get it working well on the Pi
Just cloned locally and applied xbian patches doing a test build with Linaro GCC 4.9 now
hopefully the too c hain doesn't gripe too much
Looks like Pi was using a slightly dated version of the BTRFS code
I've checked out the source version for 3.12.XY and patched up Pi Source
This is untested so far
https://github.com/zarboz/linux/commits/rpi-3.12.y
keep track of me here