On 03/01/2012 11:39 AM, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 09:49 +0000, Niels de Vos wrote:
Very cool! Downloading now, but I only have access to my Genesi
SmartBook for the next weeks, which may provide some difficulties? I
guess I'm now forced to find out which patches are needed to get the
display working reliably.
So, I managed to boot Beefy Miracle on my SmartBook. It currently runs
an adopted kernel based on sources from Genesi, with version
2.6.35.14.23. The kernel really is not stable (at least on F13) and may
hang on occasion (for to me unknown reasons).
If you are adventurous and would like to give F17 alpha1 a try, get the
rootfs as mentioned earlier in this thread (or read
http://nullr0ute.com/2012/03/an-alpha-arm-full-of-beefy-miracle-aka-fedora-17-on-arm-alpha-1/)
and add the kernel, modules and by hand updated initramfs from
http://devos.fedorapeople.org/kernel-genesi/f17-hfp-alpha1_EfikaMX-sb.tar.bz2
First thing I notices on the rootfs, was that I could not install any
additional packages, and WLAN wasn't configured (of course). I hope
http://blog.nixpanic.net/2012/03/wlan-configuration-of-networkmanager.html
helps in case you like to use WLAN as well.
Unfortunately Genesi are still working on an open driver that can be
upstreamed for 3.x on the iMX51. I'm not sure if they'll be able to get
it out in time for either F17 or openSUSE 12.2. We (openSUSE) can only
get a display working if we use the old 2.6.x kernel and even then use
their kernel tree.
Yeah, that is the same here. I hope to be able to lend a hand on getting
some drivers in a decent state. Currently I am mainly stuck with the lcd
(mtl017) driver on 3.x. No display makes the SmartBook difficult to use :-/
http://git.rtp-net.org/?p=efika.git;a=summary contains quite some usable
patches, but finding out which ones are required, and porting them to a
later kernel isn't trivial.
Half the issue is Freescale have shifted all their focus onto the iMX6
and so Genesi are fighting uphill, but they are making progress.
Sure, and I appreciate the work Genesi does. Imho it is Freescale that
should have provided the drivers in an upstreamable state and failed at
that. It is a pity that the industry does not force (non-optimised)
drivers to be upstream.
Cheers,
Niels
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