Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Daniel Walker
2009-09-09T14:18:38Z

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.

Daniel