[oe] Downgrading the kernel

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear Izak,
>
>
> Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 11:04 +0200 schrieb Izak Burger:
>> First post for me on this list, so I appologise if this is documented elsewhere.
>
> Welcome!
>
> […]
>
>> Without getting into the specifics and the ethics of clones, or the
>> specifics of how I downgraded to bootloader and unbricked it, my goals
>> are to work around enough of this so I can get on with the task at
>> hand, and for this I need to downgrade the kernel from 2.6.18 to
>> 2.6.12, in order for the older binary-only kernel modules to work with
>> it (the older modules don't check the bootloader).
>>
>> So far I haven't been able to figure out exactly what needs changing
>> to select the kernel version, and I'm also unsure what other packages
>> might be affected. Alternatively, I could also just stick with 1.5,
>> which seems to have the 2.6.12 kernel from a cursory glance. Any
>> advice will be much appreciated.
>
> You can use `PREFERRED_VERSION_RecipeName` in your local.conf

or PREFERRED_VERSION_<recipe>_local

as far as
> I know. So look for »PREFERRED_VERSION« and also »DEFAULT_PREFERENCE«.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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