On 11/15/2012 09:49 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Whalen <pwhalen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Good day all, >> >> Many lucky Fedora users have already received their shiny new Chromebooks and have begun >> tinkering, with some reports of Fedora 18 up and running. Around Christmas I also got a Samsung arm-based Chromebook. I managed to get a F18 test images for the panda board running using the existing kernel from chromeos. >> >> We'd like to discuss supporting this exciting device and adding another kernel variant for >> the Exynos 5 SoC. Has anyone looked into upstream support and its status? Is anyone >> attempting to build their own kernel? > > I've begun working on it. There's not upstream support for it yet, not > even in 3.7 so in the short term it would be a Remix kernel. I'm > hoping to get an initial remix kernel built by next week some time but > others are going to need to test as I don't have the relevant HW to do > so myself. The patch set to support it is quite large so I'm not even > going to consider adding patches to 3.6 or even 3.7. Maybe for 3.8. > > On top of the kernel we need to look at the 2D X driver. There's a > upstream omap style driver in process but as it's a pure copy from > omap is also currently conflicts with the omap driver. SystemTap really needs to have kernels with debuginfo and devel files around so it can build instrumentation modules. The kernel borrowed from chrome os doesn't provide those, so systemtap isn't too useful at the moment. I was looking around and came across the following URL talking about locally building kernel for chromeos that might be useful for the Fedora work: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109993695638569781190/posts/34PYU79eUqP It should provide some details on what exactly in in the kernel being used on the samsung chrome book and the options being used to build a working kernel. I am willing to be a test subject if you have a kernel you want to try out. > > Other things we'll need to look at are: > - uboot - I think like trimslice this is in a SPI flash so we can > likely just work out what version/features/fork that it has so we work > out whether it uses boot.scr or uEnv.txt or what recipe is needed to > make it boot the kernel > - if we need various Firmware for any of the HW, whether it's upstream > in the linux-firmware package and if it's not whether we can get it > added there or need to deal with packaging it separately. The former > would be by far the easiest :-) > > The above should get us basic Panda style usable support and from > there we need to look at various other HW support (sound etc) and > optimising the platform (both performance and power) > > Peter -Will _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
