From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:34620 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752169AbbELDxC (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2015 23:53:02 -0400 Received: by pacyx8 with SMTP id yx8so129442633pac.1 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 20:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55517906.2060204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:22:38 +0530 From: Varka Bhadram MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: testing and building for RPI References: <19096.1431373298@sandelman.ca> In-Reply-To: <19096.1431373298@sandelman.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wpan-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Michael Richardson , linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org Cc: unstrung-hackers On 05/12/2015 01:11 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > I ordered the 802.15.4 module for PI's GPIO pins from: > http://openlabs.co/OSHW/Raspberry-Pi-802.15.4-radio > > got two of them last week, and I dug the RPI out from behind the > TV. (rasbmc.. nice idea, too slow for me) > > I haven't yet gotten to caring if I got the right dtbs file, > as discussed here: > http://forum.openlabs.co/general-oshw-discussion/6lowpan-kernel-on-rpi/ > > The current linux-wpan-next tree is based on 4.1-rc1, while it > seems that the rpi kernel patches are not merged yet, and rpi-4.0 > is based upon 4.0.1. I tried rebasing the rpi code upon 4.1-rc1 > (with linux-wpan-next), but there were two non-trivial merge errors, > and even when I think I got them, some code fails to compile. > I could share that tree with someone if they wanted to help, > as RPI is gonna have to rebase upon 4.1 at some point. > > So, I plan to try the opposite, which is to rebase linux-wpan-next > upon 4.0.1. I imagine that perhaps there is a tree that I've missed > (or isn't tagged) which was before 4.1-rc1 came out... perhaps not. > > The question is therefore: have there been any changes in linux-wpan-next > that got accepted into 4.1, and therefore would be missing if I do a > naive cherry-pick? > > Will I have to do some dtbs hacking? > You can directly use linux-wpan-next tree directly, which has the basic support for RPI. No need to rebase it on rpi kernel. Please see the blog: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/hw/rpi6lowpan/ Thanks. -- Varka Bhadram