General question on upgrading Linux version

[Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Fleming [mailto:afleming at freescale.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:52 PM
> To: Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: General question on upgrading Linux version
> 
> 
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 16:29, Bizhan Gholikhamseh ((bgholikh)) wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > We are using MPC8541 processor from freescale. Our current kernel 
> > version is based on 2.6.11 plus some patches provided by Freescale.
> > I would like to update our Kernel version to a more recent version.
> > I would greatly appreciate if you could provide me with 
> some general 
> > guideline on how to proceed .....
> 
> You should be able to check out the latest sources from 
> git:// git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git

The current stable kernel release is 2.6.21. Could I use that tree
instead ?

> 
> You will probably also need a newer u-boot from here:
> 
> git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot-mpc85xx.git
Currently we are using uboot 1.2. Do I have to update the u-boot version
also or I can bypass that for now?
Thanks,
Bizhan

> 
> Please tell me if you have any problems using these.
> 
> Andy
>