Update kernel ?

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I have been using the original Beagle Board (not XM) in some one-off embedded projects.
Somebody prepared a Debian Lenny kernel for me some years ago, and it has worked well.
But, I can’t install new packages from Debian as their repos are being removed.

So, a couple questions. I need the include files that define the pinconf and mmap
registers to access the GPIO. An Angstrom kernel I tried did not have these
includes. (That may be old, newer ones probably have this, now.)

So, I need a recommendation for a good kernel to use for this sort of embedded
controller project. I’m pretty familiar with Ubuntu on X86 systems, so that would
probably be a good choice, too. Looking on the Beagle project all I can find are
quite out of data kernels. Also, I would be installing this by putting the SD card into a card reader
on a Linux PC. I’d also appreciate a pointer to instructions on how to do this from a Linux PC.

Thanks much for any help anyone can offer.

Jon

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I have been using the original Beagle Board (not XM) in some one-off
embedded projects.
Somebody prepared a Debian Lenny kernel for me some years ago, and it has
worked well.

what does (uname -r) say for the kernel version..?

But, I can't install new packages from Debian as their repos are being
removed.

Usually i tell people to upgrade to squeeze, but just fyi.. Lenny is
still available on the "archive" debian server..

See:
http://archive.debian.org/debian/README

for /etc/apt/sources.list tweaks...

So, a couple questions. I need the include files that define the pinconf
and mmap
registers to access the GPIO. An Angstrom kernel I tried did not have these
includes. (That may be old, newer ones probably have this, now.)

So, I need a recommendation for a good kernel to use for this sort of
embedded
controller project. I'm pretty familiar with Ubuntu on X86 systems, so that
would
probably be a good choice, too. Looking on the Beagle project all I can
find are
quite out of data kernels. Also, I would be installing this by putting the
SD card into a card reader
on a Linux PC. I'd also appreciate a pointer to instructions on how to do
this from a Linux PC.

Thanks much for any help anyone can offer.

Regards,

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Usually i tell people to upgrade to squeeze, but just fyi… Lenny is
still available on the “archive” debian server…

See:
http://archive.debian.org/debian/README

for /etc/apt/sources.list tweaks…

Wow, thanks, Robert, I think this will save me a lot of time. These things become
TCP or SSH servers serving one little application on protected internal networks, so I really don’t think I need to update them. And, it seems that getting a newer complete system takes a bunch of steps.

Thanks again,

Jon

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And, thanks again, with a little fiddling I got it to work, and loaded the necessary packages to get it
to compile a C program with libglade support!

Thanks,

Jon