integrated support for aufs

[umiddelb]

Hi @pepedog ,

I don't know if you expect receiving PRs for your kernel repo. But just in case if yes, you may integrate direct support for docker/aufs.

Cheers
Uli

[pepedog]

That is kind of you, normally with arch we patch in aufs into the kernel package, like here
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/linux-imx6-cubox-dt/PKGBUILD
At the moment I have abandoned this source because I can't everything working on utilite.
Only just discovered today that (example building 3.10.17) second ethernet only comes up after poweroff and then not every time , rarely if ever on reboot. On top of that it gets random Mac address if uImage made and proper Mac if separate zimage plus dts used. It may be the ethernet would have worked with this source, if I had powered off.
So for utilite I'm going with 3.10 for now. Everything (inc kodi) works with this.
Which platform are you using? Remember seeing you on utilite forum

[umiddelb]

Hi,

you're right, I'm on the utilite forum. I've a CuBox-i pro (half the price of a utilite pro) as well, but I never feel tempted to join their forum (don't know why). It's a pity that these two companies not staying far away from each other, didn't manage to cooperate since they both are using the same SoC.

Before utilite published the 3.10 kernel I was playing around with the mainline kernel 3.15 and 3.16. The utilite booted a 3.16 kernel with the igb interface up and running after applying the dts patch from Jean-Yves. May be you find some insight there.

If you patch a kernel with the aufs patchset, I strongly recommend to delete an (orphaned?) source file (include/uapi/linux/Kbuild, see here), otherwise one of the patches will be rejected and you are damaging the kernel sources, which makes it almost impossible to compile a 3.14 kernel with aufs support.

I recently bought a ODROID-C1 (half the price of a CuBox-i pro). There is really much going on there. They have excellent support (i.e. they have hired enough people) and they are open to contributions coming from the community.

[umiddelb]

Hi,

this PR can be closed, since I've abandoned this kernel tree for a while.