Re: Upstream linux-omap kernel on Nokia N900?

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Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
Hi,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 01:49:15PM +0200, ext Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
Nokia N900 is shipped to users with a 2.6.28 omap kernel. Many patches
for the hardware and various features have been pushed upstream by Nokia
developers and possibly others. Those are now available in current l-o
tree.

Nonetheless, many drivers and various features are still missing
upstream. Simply put, one cannot expect to run a current l-o kernel on
the device (and expect to get a GUI and/or make call with the device).

tell me about it :-p

Thing is that it doesn't really depend only on Nokia to get those parts done. Well, we can get the kernel part done by just cleaning up and porting the 2.6.28 drivers to current mainline, but in case of e.g. SGX we still miss the xorg driver and I don't think that'll be released any time soon.

Another problem is that the bootloader believes it can pass all the obsoleted OMAP TAGs to kernel and the 2.6.28 kernel depends on those, maybe that can be worked around. I don't know whether kernel simply drops invalid TAGs or not...

Yes kernel simply drops unrecognized TAGs and just prints a warning message.


Good work anyways... At least it's now documented ;-)

PS:

BTW, CBUS isn't really necessary for n900 and I have almost 40 patches cleaning that up pending in this mailing list :-p


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