[Gta04-owner] Letux OS stretched

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi all,
have upgraded our Letux kernel tree to 4.12-rc6 which provides some bug fixes.

The most important one is that the kernel can now boot again on the OpenPandora :)

It did simply hang after saying "Staring kernel...". The reason was a bug in the
pinmux setup (of components not upstream).

A new addition is that I have fixed quite some files for Debian 9 (Stretch)
in the demo/debug config in Letux/.

This includes:

* setting up X11 with nodm (there are subtle changes in configs)
* starting the Tiler for Pyra (unfortunately some detail is still broken but the components work)
* starting the volumed for Pyra
* starting the blanviewd for Letux 3704
* installing a service that does a rfkill block wwan on poweroff (so battery is not drained)

New Letux Stretch rootfs images are also available through makesd as "minimal", "lxde" and "xfce4".

For Pyra-users: please note that this is *not* PyraOS. It is Letux OS which can be taken as a
demo/example for other OS flavours and is a test suite for all devices supported by Letux OS.

The QuantumSTEP image is not yet available since there is a deep dependency with
libgif and libpng major versions and we need a separate compilation of everything
for Stretch.

QtMoko is also not available. I am still stuck with getting it fully compiled on Wheezy.
So there is no chance so far to get it installed or running on Jessie or Stretch.


If you want to make a bootable Letux SD card for

a) GTA04A4 (single partition image assumes you have a recent boot loader in NAND):

DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd debian -f1 -r http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/20170619-stretch-9.0-xfce4.tbz -m http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/modules.tgz -kboot http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/uImage -dboot http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/device-trees.tbz

b) Pyra:

DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd pyra -f2 -r http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/20170619-stretch-9.0-xfce4.tbz -m http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/modules.tgz -f1 -k http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/uImage -d http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/device-trees.tbz

[ btw: if you want to flash the eMMC, boot the Pyra from an SD card and run this command with /dev/sdb replaced with /dev/mmcblk0 ]

c) OpenPandora:

DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd pandora -f1 -r http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/20170619-stretch-9.0-xfce4.tbz -m http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/modules.tgz -kboot http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/uImage -dboot http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/device-trees.tbz

After things stabilize (kernel 4.12.0), I want to update the "latest" pointers so that
it will reduce to:

DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd debian-xfce
DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd pyra
DEV=/dev/sdb ./makesd pandora

to get a "stretched" Letux OS.

Could it be simpler?

BR,
Nikolaus

[1]: http://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/letux-4.12-rc6/
[2]: http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/?C=M;O=D

Letux Vision: same OS on different devices :)

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