TI omap4-dev

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/08/2011 04:03 PM, Tobin Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 12:59 +0000, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Tobin,
>>
>> Can you test the linux-ti-omap4 kernel at
>> https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ppa for Natty? If
>> its works well then we'll switch Natty over to a 2.6.38 kernel. Thanks.
>>
>> rtg
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [ACTIVITY] Mar-1 to Mar-7 2011 (cooloney)
>> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:48:09 +0800
>> From: Bryan Wu<bryan.wu at canonical.com>
>> To: Hugh Blemings<hugh at canonical.com>, Pete Graner
>> <pgraner at canonical.com>, 	Tim Gardner<tim.gardner at canonical.com>
>> CC: Canonical Kernel Team<canonical-kernel-team at lists.canonical.com>
>>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> === NDA ===
>>
>> === Distro ===
>>
>> === Kernel ===
>>    ** TI OMAP4 (32 hours)
>>
>>    * ti-omap4-dev branch
>>    - rebased Linaro -rc6 release to -rc7
>>    - fixed several conflicts during rebasing
>>    - rebased TI patches from Sebjan and Andy Green on top of this
>>    - rebased our Ubuntu Delta patches and dropped several omap3
>> conflicting patches
>>    - add Ubuntu packaging stuff
>>    - failed to build kernel due to some Linaro pre-upstream patches
>>    - prepared several fixing patches for npitre and others review
>>    - npitre fixed the bug in Linaro, Sebjan also helped to fix an audio
>> crash issue during booting
>>    - Andy Green helped to put all TI patches on top of latest Linaro branch
>>    - pull Andy's branch and rebase Ubuntu delta and packaging stuff
>>    - built kernel successfully and boots up on my Panda board with
>> latest Natty file system
>>    - prepared a branch for pull by rtg to replace ti-omap4-dev
>>    - after rtg pulled kernel and uploaded, start to test latest Natty
>> image on my Panda board.
>>
>> === ARM ===
>>    - submit a patch to upstream to fix a compiling error introduced by
>> Will Deacon's patch.
>>
>> === MISC ===
>>    * Submit my Hungary VISA application
>>    * Start to book my flight for ELC2011 in SFO
>>    * Mar 2nd afternoon, visit PPLive with OEM folks
>>    * Had a team dinner with OEM folks who visit Shanghai
>>    * Mar 3rd afternoon, visit PPStream with OEM folks
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Actually, I installed it yesterday morning (~9am PST).  I've been using
> it ever since.
>
> It has issues (audio, wifi), but no crashes that I have seen yet and
> nothing major to stop it from deployment.  My initial concern was that
> it was DVI only, and my board is a prerelease that doesn't have the DVI
> rework.  Fortunately, it would appear that I don't need it as I have
> video working just fine.
>
> So, I give my blessing to switching over to this kernel.  We can shake
> out the little details along the way.
>
>
>

Cool. I've uploaded 2.6.38-1204.5 to the main archive. The big 
difference between that and the version in the canonical-kernel-team PPA 
are ARM specific compiler changes. I'll upload a new meta package as 
soon as its finished building.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com