Hi Paul, 2013/1/26 Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > Are there any guides for developers new to Linux for: > > * converting board files to device-tree > * porting drivers and patches from Android to current mainline? there are several parts of Android, which are not part of the mainline kernel. Others are in staging. See http://elinux.org/Android_Mainlining_Project for more details. Regarding drivers for chips on your board, see the kernel documentation about coding style (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/CodingStyle) and submitting drivers (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers), submitting patches etc. Beware to send the patches/drivers to the right mailing list (see the MAINTAINERS file). If you want to add the board itself and it is ARM based, then you have to create a device tree file. I think the older board files are no more accepted in the mainline kernel. Hope that answered your question. Cheers and happy hacking. Matthias > > There are a lot of ARM mobile devices out there that aren't supported by > Linux mainline and having these guides available would really help > getting the usual Linux distros to support more mobile devices. Usually > the SoC is supported by mainline but the board is not, as is the case > for the device I have been trying to work on: > > http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/ > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- --- motzblog.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
