Beagle-xM patch for vanilla kernel ?

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Hi,

I may have looked at the wrong places, but is there a Beagle-xM patch for the vanilla linux kernel ? So far I only find patches for the Beagle Bone, which is certainly not the same. I’ve tried kernels 3.5.7, 3.8.13 and 3.10.18, configured them via oldconfig using a working armhf kernel 3.2.51. The only kernel I got to work was 3.10.18, but the ROS-command roscore doesn’t work properly.

Thank you.

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http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBoard

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Thank you for this link. Looking at it, I find several options to follow. My current situation is Ubuntu12.04armhf, and the only thing I do to replace the kernel is replacing uImage after building it with the linaro cross-compiler. I already tried Ubuntu 13.10, but that didn’t have a desktop and the SD card setup option is (as far as I can see) based on Angstrom. So can you advise what to do in my situation, looking for a way to get (preferably) kernel 3.5.7 to work ?

Thanks.

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kernel does not care which rootfs you use

ubuntu or debian rootfs images provided by RCN don’t have GUI, but it can be easily installed by the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lxde lxde-core lxde-icon-theme
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Currently, my Beagle-xM runs xfce and fvwm, where I mostly use fvwm. Looking at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap.git/refs/, I assume these are patches to make an e.g. 3.5 kernel work on the Beagle-xM. However, when I configure a vanilla kernel (3.5.7, 3.8.13, 3.10.18) I can already select options like the omap2+ and beagle. So what do these patches do other than what I already can do with a vanilla kernel ?