Linux sources

Introduction

Getting Linux sources for boards used at our department requires these steps:

1. Getting vanilla Linux sources
2. Applying several patches to these sources

The reason for providing the patches separately is that for many users it is important to know which patches were applied to the kernel they are using. The maintenance of the additional patches is not an easy task as these patches evolve in time. They are either being ported to newer Linux versions or being updated for other readons.

To maintain the patches we have decided to use the tool TopGit. This page describes how this tool is used for our Linux sources.