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What is the difference between these 2 kernels?
We have metro cards with both types of kernels on them, one crashes all the time - it is running the metro kernel. The other running the generic IXP4xx kernel is up for 21 days currently.
Is there a way to tell which kernel version you are using from a console prompt?
Cheers,
Ady
The board specific version is obtained by taking the generic image and pre-pending the board type. If your boot loader is already sending the proper board type when transferring control to linux, then there should be no difference. Note that if you've modified the kernel config file to remove some board targets, the board specific image is still produced and may not work; a patch has been submitted to fix this case.
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