TI omap4-dev

[David Mandala]

On 03/10/2011 10:54 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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

Thanks Tim, we are on the way to a 2.6.38 OMAP ARM kernel for release. :-)

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