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From: "Fabio Estevam" <festevam@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:11:11 -0300
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Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] Kernel support for i.MX6UL and 4.9 LTS updates
To: Jesse Gilles <jesse.gilles@gmail.com>
Cc: meta-freescale@lists.yoctoproject.org
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Hi Jesse,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:33 PM Jesse Gilles <jesse.gilles@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a project using the i.MX6UL and I am curious about the state of Linux kernel support in various different kernel recipes in meta-freescale.
>
> After reading documentation and various posts, this is my understanding of the different kernels in the layer:
>
> linux-fslc: purely community maintained kernel, kept pretty up to date with upstream
> linux-imx-fslc: community maintained kernel, based off NXP official BSP release kernel
> linux-imx: NXP official BSP release kernel
>
> For i.MX6UL support and functionality, is there a significant difference between linux-fslc and linux-imx-fslc?
>
> For linux-imx-fslc, is there a specific reason it is still using 4.9-1.0.x-imx and not the newer 4.9-2.3.x-imx branch?
>
> If linux-imx-fslc is the best option, is anyone maintaining the 4.9 branch and planning to keep it up to date with upstream LTS updates?  I see that 4.9-2.3.x-imx has been updated to 4.9.166.
>
> In short, I am looking for the best maintained and updated kernel with support for the i.MX6UL, including security fixes into the future.  My existing project uses a customized linux-imx 4.9 kernel.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I suggest you to move to kernel 5.4.x instead.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam