Upgrading the kernel to 3.1.0 or a Cedarview Intel Atom Chipset gfx driver

[n3ond4x]

Hello,

I'm trying to get this Intel Atom D2550 with an NM10. The CPU and GPU are combined into one chip. The only current support for linux are some kernel patch files for kernel 3.1.0 as far as I can tell. Has anyone had any experience with this or know how terrible of an idea it would be to upgrade the kernel? Would it break most extensions?

Thanks in advance guys

[Juanito]

Maybe the patches will work on this kernel?

[curaga]

It is safe to run TC with a vanilla kernel.

On the choice of hardware, you could spend your time better - something with actual linux support for example... /OT

[n3ond4x]

Oh I agree, not a fan of having to get this particular chipset working but not much of a choice in the matter 

I tried the patches on the TC patched 3.0.21 kernel source and compiled. It ended up creating a 4.5mb vmlinuz which is twice the size of the stock TC4.4 vmlinuz. So perhaps I did something wrong there, but the kernel will not work and panics at boot.

So I would be safe to download say a 3.1.0 kernel, apply the TC 3.0.21 patches and then the Cedarview patches?

Thanks again guys.

[curaga]

Yes, 3.1 with or without TC patches should work.

[n3ond4x]

Thanks. Where should I place the kernel modules? They used to reside in /lib/modules/3.0.21-tinycore/ but I'm not sure how that is referenced or what I need to change. Is there a symlink that points to this or something similar that you know of?

[gerald_clark]

When you 'make modules install' they will be copied to /lib/modules/3.1.
You will need to create a new initrd with the new modules. 
You will need to run depmod as instructed in the wiki articles.