Re: linux 4.2-rc1 broken Nokia N900

Pavel Machek
2015-07-24T08:51:28Z

On Fri 2015-07-24 16:18:09, Dave Young wrote:
> On 07/11/15 at 02:05pm, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > now I tested 4.2-rc1 release on Nokia N900 and couple of drivers are
> > broken and cause kernel oops...
> >
> > Basically wifi, touchscreen and rtc drivers not working...
> >
>
> Pali, could you tell how do you test mainline kernel on n900?
>
> I used to use n900 as a usb dbgp gadget with a backport patch to
> 2.6.28 so that I can get early debug kernel message from my laptop.
>
> I tried mainline previously with Fedora arm, text mode works but
> no graphics. Is there a way to use maemo UI with mainline kernel?

I'm successfully running MATE desktop from Debian. Even modem works
with ofono and custom scripts.

https://github.com/dderby/debian900

https://wiki.debian.org/n900-wheezy-armhf
https://wiki.debian.org/MaemoAndSqueeze

(..and tui project on gitlab).
Pavel

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