On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:29:34AM -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote:
(I'm aware that there is a thread on linaro-dev discussing this exact topic; this is a request for specific information, so I decided to start a new thread)
Hello, As has been pointed out elsewhere, it is very difficult to find the exact git tree that corresponds to a kernel release. Currently the problem I am having is that the 11.11 linaro kernel release (linux-linaro-lt-omap_3.1.0-1402.5~oneiric1) works well on my new board, but later kernels do not. While I can download the kernel tarball for 3.1.0-1402.5 from launchpad, I would much prefer to use the git tree that it was produced from. Can anybody tell me exactly which git tree was used to create that kernel, and which tag/branch I should be looking at?
That's a really good question. The answer is that it's this tag and branch:
linux-release-2011-12 http://git.linaro.org/git/landing-teams/leb/ti/kernel.git
However, I think there should be a natural way for you to find that out as well. How could we package this metadata so you'd find it easily?