Re: [Gumstix-users] toolchain for linux-2.6.10gum

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On May 18, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Dave Hylands wrote:

> Hi Khaled,
>
>
>> I am trying to build a driver for my gumstix, and my
>> toolchain is incapatible with the kernel installed on
>> my gumstix. The gumstix is 2.6.10gum, while the
>> toolchain on subversion is 2.6.10gum.
>>
>
> The newer toolchain that comes with subversion latest should work fine
> for the older versions as well. There isn't anything that I'm aware of
> that makes the toolchain specific to a version of linux. There are
> versions of linux that require some minimum version of the toolchain,
> but you should be fine.
>
> The real issue us that you'll need the linux headers which go along
> with the version of the kernel you have installed.

Except he's building a driver, which means he does depend on the  
kernel version.

The switch to 2.6.11 happened with r417 -- if you fetch r416 from SVN  
you'll get 2.6.10

Is there a reason you don't want to go to 2.6.11 though?

C