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.
- Using above hwpack does result in broken VGA output at the loco board. The bug (including the fix) for this is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/795712
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.
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...