Re: 1 lingering question ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 04/08/15 09:27, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 8 April 2015 at 14:44, William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > > As a quick test you might want to try booting a -current kernel on
> > > your B+ to see if it is happy (you should not need to change any other
> > > config or binaries). Latest builds from
> > > http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/ if you do not want to
> > > build your own.
> > >
> > > I would expect that the RTC support would be pulled up into netbsd-7
> > > before release, but I'm not the one to say for certain :)
> > Thanks for your reply, I don't want to build my own, don't trust myself
> > there just yet. What do I do to use that prebuilt binary ? I have poked
> > around that directory recently & all I saw was full images or .txy files,
> > would I be using some of those or something else ? TIA & thanks again.
> The kernels live in the binary/kernel subdir, so (currently) assuming
> you are using the evbarm-earmv6hf distribution, that would be from
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201504080720Z/evbarm-earmv6hf/binary/kernel/
>
> (The 201504080720Z will change over time :)

OK, I'm there as I write this, do I want the .bin.gz or the plain .gz 
kernel file ? Then what, uncompress it & overwrite my current kernel, or 
make a parallel directory & put it there ? Remember, I am a noob at this 
& at NetBSD in gen'l ....

Also, digressing, is there much difference between the RPI & RPI2 
kernels (like SMP support, for instance) ? I will probably be getting a 
Pi-2 soon ....

TIA & thanks :-) ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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