Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

Brian Swetland
2009-06-11T08:28:02Z

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Pavel Machek<pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Wed 2009-06-10 10:43:53, Brian Swetland wrote:
>>
>> Our current working tree (for the donut branch) is against 2.6.29:
>> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/msm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/android-msm-2.6.29
>
> Strange, I attempted downloading this overnight (285MB!)

Hm. I think if you add this as a remote to an existing repository
containing the kernel (these trees are based on v2.6.27 and v2.6.29
respectively) it should only pull the deltas (which aren't that
enormous).

>> The cupcake/1.5 system update (latest production kernel) was against 2.6.27:
>> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/msm.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/android-msm-2.6.27
>>
>> > Is all of it neccessary for dream or are parts such as board-halibut
>> > parts of some other support? Do I have wrong tree entirely?
>>
>> Most of it is necessary.  board-halibut is a qualcomm reference
>> design.  board-sapphire is HTC Magic.  board-trout is G1/ADP1.
>> arch/arm/config/msm_defconfig is how we configure the kernel we ship
>> which supports all three.
>
> Ok, could we get the boards renamed? g1 is known as dream, having
> trout+dream+g1+adp1 names for same piece of hardware is unnice.

It's hard to have a single name since carriers tend to use different
names in different markets. We often start work on kernel support
long before a product is announced, so we've been using the fish names
to allow us to register board names with the ARM machine registry
early on and not use bogus internal-only machine IDs.

> Hmm, perhaps this would be useful to apply?

I didn't realize we had an android.txt already under Documentation.
Expanding it with more details sounds good to me.

halibut - Qualcomm SURF 7201A
trout - HTC Dream, Android ADP1, T-Mobile G1
sapphire - HTC Sapphire, HTC Magic

There may be some other names used by other carriers or in other regions.

Brian