On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 12:25:51 PM CEST Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> [ First questions ] >> >> Where moved "arch/arm/mach-msm" (don't see it in Linus Git)? >> Has Linux v4.4.y support for all the devices? Is it a solid base? >> Need a more modern Linux-version. >> ( I have not looked into the official tarballs from Google in [1] ). > > mach-msm never supported any of the modern parts on a mainline kernel > and was suffering from bitrot to the point where we ended up removing it. > >> The CM-wiki says ARM-SoC is Qualcomm APQ8064 and GPU is Adreno 320. > > I think you are lucky here: this is the same chip as Nexus 7, which > is one of the few Android devices that have a high degree of upstream > support. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ has done some work on which you > can probably build here. Without that, your chance of success would > be fairly minimal. > > Just start with this kernel tree and add what you need: > https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/flo.git/shortlog/refs/heads/flo-WIP > If you compare the original android sources for Nexus 7 (2013) and > Nexus 4, you can probably figure out what is missing. > > I'm guessing that working Modem support is the biggest challenge here, > if you don't absolutely need to make phone calls you should be able > to get it working. > [ Björn moved to Linaro ] Hi John, what is the base for your flo-WIP Git branch? Linus tree? Linux-next? An ARM Git tree "for-next"? What "OS" are you running in that video (LWN article, see above)? FYI: I downloaded "flo-lmy48t" (Nexus-7) to compare with "occam-lmy48t" (Nexus-4) - both for Android v5.1.1 and the same build-nummer. Let's see... Regards, - Sedat - [1] https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#flo [2] https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razor [3] https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/razor-lmy48t-factory-b6a844f2.tgz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
