Upstream imx6 vs. freescale kernel

[cblack]

I am guessing this has been discussed in the past, but I wasn't able to come up with any search results.

We are wondering what sort of fixes & features from the official Freescale maintained kernel are sent to the upstream kernel.org mainline kernel (and vice-versa).  We are trying to decide if it makes sense to use a 4.2+ kernel from mainline (as I know we will get a few needed bug-fixes), or to use FSL current 3.14 release.

Is there a (somewhat) easy way to determine at a high level what support or bug fixes exist in each version?  in general, how "in sync" is the imx6 development on mainline with the fsl kernel?  Perhaps there is a process in place?

thanks for the time

[igorpadykov · Accepted solution]

Hi Curt

one can look what is supported in Community releases on

https://github.com/Freescale/Documentation/blob/master/release-notes/source/soc-pkg.inc

official FSL BSPs have Release Notes and Linux Manuals in each package, they describes what is supported

and bug fixes

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=RDIMX6SABREBRD&fpsp=1&tab=Design_Tool...

SABRE Board Reference Design|Freescale

differencies between official FSL BSPs and Community is described on

https://community.freescale.com/message/402940#402940

Best regards

igor

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