Re: linux 4.2-rc1 broken Nokia N900

Dave Young
2015-07-24T10:40:00Z

On 07/24/15 at 10:51am, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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, it is very helpful, actually I do not care much about modem.
Will take a look at how Debian works as well. Maybe I should send
private email to ask these and future questions, it is off topic now...

Thanks
Dave