Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Pavel Machek
2009-09-09T14:23:06Z

On Wed 2009-09-09 07:19:01, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 11:57 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > Note, Pavel has been adding some of the Dream hardware
> > > > > drivers, which are separate from the core Android drivers. I
> > > > > have no objection to those, but they should work to get merged
> > > > > to their "correct" places in the tree in another release or
> > > > > so.
> > > >
> > > > Well, some of those drivers should be moderately easy (touchscreen),
> > > > but some (camera) will take longer than that. For example camera --
> > > > contains _lots_ of code, and uses obsolete v4l api.
> > > >
> > > > Plus, I really need to get recent kernel to boot and then get arch/arm
> > > > pieces merged....
> > >
> > > I've got a tree with a lot of the arch/arm/msm pieces isolated, doesn't
> > > boot yet .. I had to drop certain parts like the key pad support since
> > > it had a big generic change attached to it .. It's all part of a git
> > > tree which I can expose if you want to look at it.
> >
> > Yes, minimal, but booting version would be very welcome. I tried to
> > produce exactly that few times, but did not succeed (yet).
>
> Last night I discovered maybe a better tree to use ..
>
> https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/quic/kernel/?p=bryanh/linux-2.6.git;a=summary
>
> It's based off a newer kernel 2.6.31-rc6 . I have a feeling it's minus a
> lot of the google stuff.

Big question is... 'does it boot?' :-). The rest should be easy.

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