Linux Kernel 3.x for EVM816x (DM816x)

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Anyone have any suggestions on how to get a 3.x Linux Kernel build for my DM816x EVM?

Jeremy,

There is no PSP release available for DM81xx series with kernel 3.x. If required, you'll have to port it manually. 

Hi, Thomas!

I try solve this task, but I haven't great experience in this sphere. Can you give any advice or recommendation how this task is solving (i.e first steps or getting started) ? Thank you.

Idle,

Are you sure that you want to migrate to 3.x kernel? This will be a huge work and will take months together to complete it. Why are you particular about 3.x kernel? Is there any particular reason for it?

I would like to have the 3.x kernel available for the DM816x and DM814x so that as a company we can standardize on 1 kernel across multiple hardware products.

Wow! I don't imagined that this so difficult. It was only for own understanding, how to solve such tasks. I don't need in 3'x kernel for my custom board. It is working fine on 2.6.37. Thank you.

Jeremy,

If you hardware lines comprise of DM81xx processors, it will be better to use 2.6.37 itself. Spending for the effort to just get one particular version of kernel across all platforms may not yield the expected benefits. There will still be lot of dependencies on hardware specific code and you've to spend even more to make it generic and keep it same across. Maintainability will not be that impressive as you expect. It will be easier to maintain these separately.