On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Dirk Behme dirk.behme@googlemail.com wrote:
From a short discussion at #linaro-kernel today there was the idea to start a thread about the status of the Freescale linaro-lt-mx53loco kernel.
From a customer point of view, the recent linaro-lt-mx53loco kernel seems to have some issues:
- Status of the of the Freescale landing team kernel git repository:
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-kernel/2011-June/000502.html
And going back in the history there seems to be no real progress since last December:
http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2010-December/001833.html
- The recent hwpack_linaro-lt-mx53loco_20110617-0_armel_supported.tar.gz
still uses a 2.6.35 kernel [1], while the landing team git repository already contains a 2.6.38 kernel [2] (lt-2.6.38 branch). But this hasn't found its way into a hwpack, yet.
FYI - just talked with james_w and we filed a ticket to make .38 into the public hwpack on snapshots.linaro.org. We are currently still working on that. Please stay tuned when that's done.
- Using above hwpack does result in broken VGA output at the loco board. The
bug (including the fix) for this is
This was made default in the .38 kernel we were focusing on. So when the new hwpack is available, this will be solved.
Sorry if anything above is wrong ;)
A short discussion with Eric showed that the Freescale developers are quite busy. I'd like to start a discussion how the situation could be improved or what help might be needed.
There are several things in my POV:
1. separate the GPU/VPU driver out of the kernel since it's not likely they will be upstreamed in a short while
2. focusing on upstreaming the other components
3. transition to DT
That the 2nd/3rd part is really what we'd like to get help from the community.
Opinions?
Many thanks and best regards
Dirk
[1] Linux version 2.6.35-1001-linaro-lt-mx53 (buildd@crabapple) (gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-5ubuntu1) ) #1-Ubuntu PREEMPT Tue Mar 8 03:16:18 UTC 2011
[2] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=bsp/freescale/linux-linaro-natty.git%3Ba=summ...